Colorado Community Health Network Inc

Public affairs: to educate local, state and federal agencies and governments about the importance of community health centers.

Group purchasing program: the organization has entered into agreements with suppliers of goods and services for chcs and other health care safety net clinics. The organization receives a fee from the suppliers to cover expenses associated with administering these contracts. Community health association of mountain/plains states (champs): cchn provides administrative and accounting services to champs under a professional services agreement. Emergency preparedness: to provide training, technical assistance, other education and equipment to colorado chcs. Covering kids and families (ckf): to support community-based health coverage assisters who help coloradans enroll in and renew health coverage and to advocate for state-level improvements to the eligibility and enrollment process leading to increased enrollment and decreased administrative barriers. Oral health: to improve the dental health of vulnerable populations by increasing integration of oral health preventive services in primary care delivery systems. Workforce development: to develop and deliver workforce training opportunities for colorado chcs and to grow and maintain relationships with key workforce partners in order to provide programs and resources which sustain and grow the existing chc workforce. Health care access: to develop goals and a roadmap that will serve as a guide to begin or strengthen health centers- and cchn's efforts to increase access to high quality health care for communities across colorado. Cancer, chronic disease, and diabetes prevention and early detection: to implement strategies to address cancer prevention and early detection at one or more levels of the socioecological framework, depending on the needs of the underserved population served by and living within the service area. Payment reform: to work with colorado chcs and the state medicaid agency to develop a new population-based payment methodology for chc medicaid reimbursement and to support chcs in system and care changes. Colorado health service corps: to review loan repayment applications from health care providers employed by facilities serving medically underserved populations. Team-based care: to provide training/technical assistance to health centers to facilitate continued transformation around team-based care components of patient centered medical home. Datad inititiative: continue building capacity around improving data collection processes, assessing needs, and developing an implementation plan. Pathways: develop and strengthen pathways for underrepresented individuals into health care careers in community health centers by directly assisting small cohorts of chcs in meaningful outreach to high school and early career individuals, exploring avenures for staff to leverage experience and education for career development, and promoting long-term leadership development and career advancement. This will also inform resources and peer discussions shared with all chcs. Enhancing clinical support staff sustainability: provide technical assistance and resources to chch that are exploring and testing our new models of using clinical support staff to assist in health care delivery. This project will be focused on supporting chcs in both the recruitment and retention of staff under these new models, as well as assisting with incorporating these new approaches into the team-based care model and tackling and compliance or policy issues that arise to remove barriers to sustainability.