A Quarterly Resource Digest from Capital Link Fall 2019
Of Note...
Cooperative Agreement Collaboration
As we are all drafting our work plans for the upcoming three-year HRSA cooperative agreement cycle, we thought it would be helpful to provide information on ways you might consider collaborating with Capital Link—PCA to N-TTAP. What are your upcoming training and educational needs? What topic areas do you most need to convey to your staff or membership? Whether it’s a series of webinars, one specific educational effort, a financial or operational assessment, or something brand new, Capital Link can support you in building capacity and addressing requirements of your PCA NOFO. Below are the specific NOFO goals and objectives we can assist you with.
Goal A: Increase Access to Comprehensive Primary Care
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A1: Comprehensive Services Note: PCAs covering Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and other states in the targeted jurisdictions for ending the HIV epidemic, are required to select HIV prevention supplemental funding |
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A2: Health Center Program Development |
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A3: Service Integration (Optional) |
Address capital needs related to service expansion through one‐on‐one assistance and group trainings. |
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A4: Innovation (Optional) |
If lack of access to affordable capital options for expansion is an identified barrier, Capital Link can assist in addressing capital needs related to service expansion through: |
Goal B: Accelerate Value‐Based Care Delivery
| OBJECTIVE | CAPITAL LINK SUPPORT |
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B1: Readiness for Value‐Based Care Delivery |
Trainings in understanding costs in value‐based care environment and financial readiness/scenario modeling for value-based care. |
Goal C: Foster a Workforce to Address Current and Emerging Needs
| OBJECTIVE | CAPITAL LINK SUPPORT |
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C2: Executive Development |
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C3: Workforce Advancement (Optional) |
Trainings and one‐on‐one assistance in aligning "person, place, and process" in multi‐disciplinary care teams. |
Goal E: Advance Health Center Clinical Quality and Performanc
| OBJECTIVE | CAPITAL LINK SUPPORT |
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E5: Community Partnership (Optional) |
Trainings related to capital planning and access in partnering with community and other organizations to address the social determinants of health. |
Note that many of our services are free of charge under the HRSA cooperative agreement, while others have a fee. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Our Services
Sustainability and Growth Planning
State and Local Market Assessments analyze service areas in geographic, demographic, and economic terms, helping health centers evaluate and determine current and future patient
needs and helping PCAs/HCCNs identify areas of unmet need in the state for future planning.
Scenario Modeling helps forecast the impact of changing patient care models and revenues based on payment reform. Evaluating potential scenarios helps health centers better plan for impacts on operations, including patient utilization, care delivery, and service offerings.
Strategic Planning Facilitation walks health centers through the process of assessing key opportunities and challenges, identifying environmental influences, examining operating systems, establishing objectives, mobilizing staff and other stakeholders, and distilling information into actions, using our toolkit.
Advancing Financial & Operational Strength provides health center staff at all levels with in-depth training and resources related to financial and operational benchmarking; revenue cycle management; aligning people, place and process; capital planning; and performance improvement (to name a few) to improve business operations and financial health. The program launched in 2015 in California and has expanded in partnership with PCAs in to Missouri, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT Alternative Payment Methodology tools and trainings to help health centers prepare for value-based reimbursement.
Operations and Financial Management
Performance Evaluation Profiles provide multi-year performance trends, benchmarking the results against state, national, and peer medians across 73 financial and operational metrics.
Strategic Revenue Cycle Management training and technical assistance helps health centers to improve financial stability and operating performance.
Capital Project Financing
Capital Project Planning offers assistance in developing the rationale, feasibility, justification, and detailed plans necessary to complete a successful facilities project.
Financing Assistance helps health centers determine its plan of finance; complete its business plan and financial projections; obtain credit enhancement (if necessary); and structure and obtain the most favorable sources of financing through a variety of sources, including through USDA, New Markets Tax Credit financing and the HRSA Loan Guarantee Program.
Health Center Value and Impact
Value & Impact Analysis reports utilize key metrics from our database and IMPLAN economic modeling software to help health centers evaluate and communicate their value to payers,
policy makers, and community stakeholders.
For more information about Capital Link’s services, please contact Mark Lurtz, Director of Partnership Development, at 636-233-1515 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Our Resources
Publications
We offer publications available for download free of charge on our website. Topics include national trends, performance improvement, capital project planning, capital project financing, and patient centered medical home. Access our publications here.
Events and Webinars
Capital Link regularly exhibits and conducts presentations and education sessions at industry conferences for health centers and primary care associations. Find a list of our upcoming events here.
We offer webinars designed to offer useful information for health centers on a wide range of topics. The webinars have no charge, but participation is limited. Find a schedule of upcoming webinars here. Access recordings of any of our past webinars here.
Learning Collaboratives
Capital Link’s Learning Collaboratives are designed to help increase the capacity of health centers in a peer-to-peer learning format. Conducted through a series of webinars and virtual discussions facilitated by Capital Link, our Collaboratives are focused on topics such as planning and financing capital development projects or forming non-traditional partnerships with organizations to address Social Determinants of Health. Learn more about our current and upcoming learning collaboratives here.