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 A Quarterly Resource Digest from Capital Link                                                                                                     Fall 2019


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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

OBJECTIVE  CAPITAL LINK SUPPORT

 

A1: Comprehensive Services 
Increase the percentage of health centers that have sucessfully implemented Health Center Program supplemental funding (select one supplemental funding opportunity for developing your numberator and denominator)

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

 

 

A2: Health Center Program Development
Increase the number of new, existing, and potential health centers that have been supported through strategic development technical assistance

 

  • Targeted capital needs assessments and inclusion of capital as part of strategic planning

  • FQHC strategies for addressing hospital closure in rural areas (under consideration)

  • Value and impact analyses to quantify benefits of health center operations, expanded services and capital investment

 

A3: Service Integration (Optional)
Increase the percentage of health centers that are fully integrating comprehensive services into primary care (e.g., primary medical, oral, mental, substance use disorder, vision, enabling services)

 

Address capital needs related to service expansion through one‐on‐one assistance and group trainings.

 

A4: Innovation (Optional)
Create an objective that defines a state/regional barrier to increasing access and propose to test a potential approach to overcoming the barrier and evaluate its effectiveness and scalability

 

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

 

B1: Readiness for Value‐Based Care Delivery
Increase the percentage of health centers that are at a high level of readiness for, or already engaged in 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

 

C2: Executive Development
Increase the percentage of health center executive staff and board members that receive state/region‐specific T/TA to advance health center operations

 

  • Trainings in "Metrics that Matter: Financial and Operational Benchmarking" for boards and executive staff, including CMOs.

  • Performance Evaluation Profiles (financial and operational metrics with comparative data) for groups of centers or individual centers‐‐to advance understanding of financial and operational strengths and weaknesses.

  • Advancing Financial and Operational Strength (AFOS) trainings for health center staff

 

C3: Workforce Advancement (Optional)
Increase the percentage of health centers receiving support around innovative ways to maximize workforce through multidisciplinary care teams

 

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

 

E5: Community Partnership (Optional)
Increase the percentage of health centers that partner with community organizations to propose innovative solutions to address social determinants of health

 

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..

 

 

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