Growth Feasibility Assessment

The Growth Feasibility Assessment (GFA) is Capital Link's newest diagnostic tool, designed to assist health centers in determining the feasibility for facilities expansion projects.

This customized report features a debt capacity sensitivity analysis; dashboards of key financial, productivity, and operational performance measures benchmarked against peer results over multiple years; and summaries of notable findings of key performance trends and potential next steps.

For more information, contact Beth Edwards at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

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Patient Profile and Health Equity Analysis

Capital Link’s new Patient Profile and Health Equity Analysis is a customized report examining select health center patient population characteristics and clinical outcome performance measures by race and ethnicity. As documented in multiple studies, minority and low-income populations have less access to health care and poorer health outcomes. This report is designed to assist health centers and PCAs in identifying their own successes and challenges, including any health inequities that may need to be addressed in order to promote true health equity among the most vulnerable patient populations.

Using HRSA UDS data, the report provides performance trends for the most recent four-year period that data is available for (i.e., 2019 through 2022), benchmarking the results against state and national medians for the following patient characteristic and outcome metrics:

• Select Patient Characteristics

• Patients with Income at or below 200% of Poverty
• Patients Best Served in a Language Other than English
• Percentage of Asian, Black/African American, White, Other Patients of Color, and Hispanic or Latino/a Patients
• Percentage of Agricultural Workers or Dependents, Homeless, School-Based Health Center, and Veterans Patients
• Percentage of Patients Served at a Health Center Located in or Immediately Accessible to a Public Housing Site
  
  
• Health Outcomes & Disparities
  
  • Percentage of Low and Very Low Birth Weight Babies Delivered During the Year by Race/Ethnicity
  • Percentage of Patients with Controlled High Blood Pressure by Race/Ethnicity
  • Percentage of Patients with Diabetes and Hemoglobin A1c Poor Control by Race/Ethnicity

The Patient Profile and Health Equity Analysis is available as an individual health center report, or as a statewide or regional data analysis for PCAs. 

To learn more about this report, please contact Jennifer Saber at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Performance Evaluation Profile

Updated with 2022 HRSA UDS data, Capital Link’s Performance Evaluation Profile (PEP) is a diagnostic tool for health centers and PCAs to examine financial health, productivity, utilization, and staffing.

Using UDS information and Capital Link's own database of health center financial audits, the PEP provides multi-year performance trends for 2019 through 2022, benchmarking the results against state, national, and peer medians across 113 financial and operational metrics. It features a peer comparison dashboard and dashboard summaries of the top 62 metrics. The analysis also indicates whether the results meet Capital Link’s industry recommendations.

Dashboards include:

• Selected Patients Characteristics Dashboard
  • Patients with Income at or below 200% of Poverty
  • Patients Best Served in a Language Other than English
  • Percentage of Asian, Black/African American, White, Other Patients of Color, and Hispanic or Latino/a Patients
• Non-Clinical Staffing Productivity Dashboard
• Patient and Visits Growth Rates Dashboard

Metrics include:

• Virtual Visits for Medical, Dental, Mental Health, and Enabling Services (new to HRSA UDS in 2019)
• Substance Use Disorder Visits per Substance Use Disorder FTE (new to PEP)
• Percentage of women 51-73 years of age who had a mammogram to screen for breast cancer (new to HRSA UDS in 2020)
• Percentage of patients 21 years of age and older at high risk of cardiovascular events who were prescribed or were on statin therapy (new to HRSA UDS in 2019)
• Percentage of Patients Seen Within 30 Days of First Diagnosis of HIV (updated in HRSA UDS from 90 Days in 2020)
  
  

Available as an individual health center report, or as a statewide or regional data analysis for PCAs, the PEP increases organization-wide financial and operational performance awareness and supports capital project planning thereby enhancing overall health center operations.

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To learn more about the PEP reports, contact Jennifer Saber at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..