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Beacon Communities to Lead the Way

May 13th, 2010

Beacon Communities Demonstrating Meaningful Use of Health IT

Beacon Community Awardee Funding Amount Beacon Community Goals for Population Health in Service Area
Community Services Council of Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla. $12,043,948
  • Leverage broad community partnerships with hospitals, providers, payers, and government agencies  to expand a community-wide care coordination system, which will increase appropriate referrals for cancer screenings, decrease unnecessary specialist visits and (with telemedicine) increase access to care for patients with diabetes
Delta Health Alliance, Inc., Stoneville, Miss. $14,666,156
  • Focus on achieving improvements for diabetic patients by electronically linking isolated systems and practices for care management, medication therapy management and patient education
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, Brewer Maine $12,749,740
  • Expand community connectivity, including long-term care, primary care and specialist providers, to existing Health Information Exchange and promote the use of telemedicine and patient self-management in order to improve care for elderly patients and individuals needing long-term or home care
Geisinger Clinic, Danville, PA $16,069,110
  • Enhance care for patients with pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure by creating a community-wide medical home, promoting Health Information Exchange and extending Geisinger’s proven model for practice redesign  to independent healthcare organizations throughout region
HealthInsight, Salt Lake City, Utah $15,790,181
  • Improve Diabetes management performance measures by increasing availability, accuracy and transparency of quality reporting, leverage Intermountain Healthcare’s strategies to reduce health systems costs throughout the region, and improve public health reporting
Indiana Health Information Exchange, INC., Indianapolis, Ind. $16,008,431
  • Expand the country’s largest Health Information Exchange to new community providers in order to improve cholesterol and blood sugar control for diabetic patients and reduce preventable re-admissions through telemonitoring of high risk chronic disease patients after hospital discharge
Inland Northwest Health Services, Spokane, Wash. $15,702,479
  • Focus on increasing preventive services for diabetic patients in rural areas by extending Health Information Exchange and establishing anchor institutions in close proximity to remote clinics that will promulgate successes in health IT supported care coordination
Louisiana Public Health Institute, New Orleans, La. $13,525,434
  • Reduce racial health disparities and improve control of diabetes and smoking cessation rates by linking technically isolated health systems, providers, and hospitals; and empower patients by increasing their access to Personal Health Records
Mayo Clinic Rochester, d/b/a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn. $12,284,770
  • Enhance patient management and, reduce costs costs associated with hospitalization and emergency services for patients with diabetes and childhood asthma and address reduce health disparities for underserved populations and rural communities
Rhode Island Quality Institute, Providence, R.I. $15,914,787
  • Improve the management of patients with diabetes through several health IT initiatives to support Rhode Island’s transition to the Patient Centered Medical Home model and adapt infrastructure proven to improve childhood immunizations in order to achieve improvements in adult immunization rates
Rocky Mountain Health Maintenance Organization, Grand Junction, Colo. $11,878,279
  • Enable robust collection of clinical data from health systems, providers, and hospitals in order to inform practice redesign to improve blood pressure control in patients with diabetes and hypertension, increase smoking cessation counseling, and reduce unnecessary emergency department utilization and hospital re-admissions
Southern Piedmont Community Care Plan, Inc., Concord, N.C. $15,907,622
  • Improve care coordination for patients with diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and asthma by engaging patients and providers in bidirectional data sharing through a Health Record Bank, empowering patients and family members to participate in self-management through patient portals, and expanding access to care managers to facilitate post-discharge planning
The Regents of the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, Calif. $15,275,115
  • Expand pre-hospital emergency field care and electronic information transmission to improve outcomes for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, empower patients to engage in their own health management through web portal and cellular telephone technology, and improve continuity of care for veterans and military personnel through the Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record initiative
University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, Hawaii $16,091,390
  • Implement a region-wide Health Information Exchange and Patient Health Record solution and utilize secure, internet-based care coordination and tele-monitoring tools to increase access to specialty care for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in this rural, health-professional shortage area
Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y. $16,092,485
  • Utilize clinical decision support tools such as registries and point-of-care alerts and reminders and innovative telemedicine solutions to improve primary and specialty care for diabetic patients, decrease preventable emergency room visits, hospitalizations and re-admissions for patients with diabetes and congestive heart failure or pneumonia, and improve immunization rates among diabetic patients

More information about Beacon Communities can be found at: http://Healthit.hhs.gov/Programs/Beacon.

For information about other HHS Recovery Act programs, see http://www.hhs.gov/recovery

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HHS Awards $144 Million for Higher Education and Research

April 11th, 2010

Academia and the Research Community Will Support Health Providers

Awards totaling $84 million to 16 universities and junior colleges will support training and development of more than 50,000 new health IT professionals.

Additionally Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) awards totaling $60 million were provided to four advanced research institutions ($15 million each) to focus on solving current and future challenges that represent barriers to adoption and meaningful use of health IT.

Community College Consortia Program ($36 million):

The Community College Consortia Program provides assistance to five regional recipients to establish a multi-institutional consortium within each designated region. The five regional consortia will include 70 community colleges in total. Each college will create non-degree training programs that can be completed in six months or less by individuals with appropriate prior education and/or experience. First year grant awards are estimated at $36 million. An additional $34 million is available for year two funding of these programs after successful completion of a mid-project evaluation.

Institution Amount of Award
Bellevue College
Bellevue, Washington
$ 3,364,798
Cuyahoga Community College District
Cleveland, Ohio
$ 7,531,403
Los Rios Community College District
Sacramento, California
$ 5,435,587
Pitt Community College
Winterville, North Carolina
$10,901,009
Tidewater Community College
Norfolk, Virginia
$ 8,492,793

Curriculum Development Center ($10 million):

The Curriculum Development Centers will develop educational materials for key health IT topics to be used by the members of the Community College Consortia program. The materials will also be made available to institutions of higher education across the country. One of the centers will receive additional assistance to act as the National Training and Dissemination Center (NTDC) for the curriculum materials.

Institution Amount of Award
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
$1,820,000
The Trustees of Columbia University
New York City, New York
$1,820,000
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
$1,820,000
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
$1,820,000
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
$2,720,000*

*(Will also receive the NTDC awards)

University-Based Training Programs ($32 million):

The University-based training programs will produce trained professionals for vital, highly specialized health IT roles. Most trainees in these programs will complete intensive courses of study in 12-months or less and receive a university-issued certificate of advanced training.  Other trainees supported by these grants will study toward masters’ degrees.

Institution Amount of Award
The Trustees of Columbia University
New York City, New York
$3,786,677
University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing
Denver, Colorado
$2,622,186
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
$2,167,121
George Washington University
District of Columbia
$4,612,313
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
$1,406,469
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
$3,752,512
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
$5,145,705
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
$3,085,812
Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas
$5,421,205

Competency Examination Program ($6 million):

This program will support the development and initial administration of a set of health IT competency examinations. The program will create an objective measure to assess basic competency for individuals trained in short-term, non degree health IT programs and for members of the workforce seeking to demonstrate their competency in certain health IT workforce roles.

Institution Amount of Award
Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, Virginia
$6,000,000

Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program ($60 million):

The SHARP program recognizes the critical importance of research to support improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare by creating “breakthrough” advances in information technology. The SHARP program targets four areas where improvements in technology are needed. The four SHARP award recipients, their areas of research focus and funding are:

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill. – Security of Health Information Technology – Developing security and risk mitigation policies and the technologies necessary to build and preserve the public trust as Health IT systems gain widespread use. $15 million.
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas – Patient-Centered Cognitive Support – Harnessing the power of Health IT so that it integrates with, enhances and supports clinicians’ reasoning and decision-making. $15 million.
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College, Boston, Mass. – Healthcare Application and Network Platform Architectures – Developing new and improved architectures that will leverage benefits of today’s architecture and focus on the flexibility and scalability needs for the future to address significant increases in capture, storage and analysis of data. $15 million.
  • Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. – Secondary Use of EHR Data– Strategies to make use of data that will be stored in EHRs for improving the overall quality of health care, while maintaining data privacy and security. $15 million.

Information about the HITECH awards available through the workforce development program is available at http://HealthIT.HHS.gov/ and www.grants.gov.

Health IT Regional Extension Centers

Health IT for Regional Extension Centers

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State HIE, REC and Job Training Grant Recipients

February 12th, 2010

State HIE, REC and Job Training Grant Recipients for Health IT, Training Workers for Health Jobs of the Future

A complete listing of the state HIE, REC and job training grant recipients is as follows:

State HIE Awards:

State HIE Awardee Award Amount
Alabama Medicaid Agency $10,564,789
Arizona Governor’s Office of Economic Recovery $9,377,000
Arkansas Dept of Finance and Administration $7,909,401
California Health and Human Services Agency $38,752,536
Colorado Regional Health Information Organization $9,175,777
Delaware Health Information Network $4,680,284
Government of the District of Columbia $5,189,709
Georgia Department of Community Health $13,003,003
Office of the Governor (Guam) $1,600,000
The Hawaii Health Information Exchange $5,602,318
Illinois Department of Health care and Family Services $18,837,639
Kansas Health Information Exchange Project $9,010,066
Cabinet for Health and Family Services (Kentucky) $9,750,000
State of Maine/Governor’s Office of Health Policy & Finance $6,599,401
Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation $10,599,719
Michigan Department of Health $14,993,085
Minnesota Department of Health $9,622,000
Missouri Depart of Social Services $13,765,040
Nevada Department of Health and Human Services $6,133,426
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services $5,457,856
Lovelace Clinic Foundation, New Mexico $7,070,441
New York eHealth Collaborative Inc. $22,364,782
Commonwealth of the NMI, Department of Public Health $800,000
North Carolina Department of State Treasurer $12,950,860
Ohio Health Information Partnership LLC $14,872,199
Oklahoma Health Care Authority $8,883,741
Pacific Ecommerce Development Corporation (American Samoa) $600,000
State of Oregon $8,579,992
Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform Commonwealth of Pennsylvania $17,140,446
Oticina del Gobernador La Fortaeza (Puerto Rico) $7,770,980
Rhode Island Quality Institute $5,280,000
State of Tennessee $11,664,580
Utah Department of Health $6,296,705
Vermont Department of Human Services $5,034,328
Virgin Islands Department of Health $1,000,000
Virginia Department of Health $11,613,537
Health Care Authority (Washington) $11,300,000
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources $7,819,000
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services $9,441,000
Office of the Governor (Wyoming) $4,873,000
Total Award Amount $385,978,640

Regional Extension Center Awards:

RECs Awardee Award Amount
Altarum Institute, Michigan $19,619,990
Arkansas Foundation For Medical Care $7,400,000
CIMRO of Nebraska $6,647,371
Colorado RHIO $12,475,000
District of Columbia Primary Care Association $5,488,437
Fund for Public Health New York $21,754,010
Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge (Ohio-Kentucky) $9,738,000
Health Choice Network, Inc.,Florida $8,500,000
HealthInsight, Utah-Nevada $6,917,783
Iowa IFMC $5,508,019
Kansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc. $7,000,000
Key Health Alliance (Stratis Health), Minnesota – North Dakota $19,000,000
Lovelace Clinic, New Mexico $6,175,000
Massachusetts Technology Park Cooperation $13,433,107
MetaStar, Inc, Wisconsin $9,125,000
Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc., Georgia $19,521,542
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) $26,534,999
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill $13,569,169
Northern California Regional Extension Center $17,286,081
Northern Illinois University $7,546,000
Northwestern University $7,649,533
OCHIN Inc. (Primary), Oregon $13,201,499
Ohio Health Information Partnership $28,500,000
Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality, Inc. $5,331,685
Purdue University $12,000,000
Qsource (Tennessee) $7,256,155
Qualis Health, Washington – Idaho $12,846,482
Rhode Island Quality Institute $6,000,000
Southern California Regional Extension Center $13,961,339
Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. $6,762,080
VHQC and the Center for Innovative Technology, for The Virginia Consortium $12,425,000
West Virginia Health Improvement Institute Inc. $6,000,000
Total Award Amount $375,173,281

Job Training Awards:

Healthcare / High Growth Grant Recipient Award Amount
Calhoun Community College $3,470,830
Mid-South Community College $3,391,053
South Arkansas Community College $3,520,612
Kern Community College District (KCCD) $2,768,572
Los Rios Community College District $4,988,561
Mt. San Antonio Community College District $2,239,714
San Diego State University Research Foundation $4,953,575
San Jose State University Research Foundation $5,000,000
San Bernardino Community College District $4,260,863
Youth Policy Institute $3,623,473
Spanish Speaking Unity Council $3,559,139
Otero Junior College $4,999,350
National Council of La Raza $3,457,516
Providence Health Foundation of Providence Hospital $4,953,999
DeKalb Technical College (DTC) $2,043,859
Governors State University $4,994,686
Indianapolis Private Industry Council, Inc. $4,885,812
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana $5,000,000
Iowa Workforce Development $3,403,164
Maysville Community and Technical College $2,007,637
Louisiana Technical College, Greater Acadiana Region 4 $4,859,040
Southern University at Shreveport $4,296,308
Maine Department of Labor $4,892,213
The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) $4,928,654
Macomb Community College $4,971,642
American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center $5,000,000
Northland Community and Technical College $4,996,844
MN State Colleges & Universities DBA Pine Technical College $4,230,950
South Central College $4,506,101
The Montgomery Institute $4,519,625
Full Employment Council $4,998,344
Crowder College $3,576,760
Maryville University – St. Louis $4,699,354
University of New Hampshire $2,944,732
Passaic County Community College $4,475,041
Fulton Montgomery Community College (FMCC) $2,865,657
Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) $3,382,200
University Behavioral Associates, Inc. $5,000,000
Workforce Investment Board of Herkimer, Madison, and Oneida Counties $2,700,096
Goodwill Industries, Inc., Serving E. Neb and SW Iowa $2,007,846
Nevada Cancer Institute $3,262,676
Berea Children’s Home $4,927,843
BioOhio $5,000,000
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College $4,935,132
Columbus State Community College $4,605,303
Enterprise for Employment and Education $2,373,073
Trident Technical College $2,624,532
Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC) $4,346,351
The University of South Dakota $5,000,000
Centerstone of Tennessee, Inc. $5,000,000
North Central Texas College $4,150,005
San Jacinto Community College District $4,722,919
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) $4,655,799
Shenandoah Valley Workforce Investment Board, Inc. (SVWIB) $4,951,991
Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board $5,000,000
Total $226,929,446

Additional information about the state HIE and RECs may be found at http://HealthIT.HHS.gov/statehie and http://healthit.hhs.gov/extensionprogram

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State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program

February 12th, 2010

State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program Awards

Early 2010 marked the first announcement of awards to 40 states and State Designated Entities (SDE) under HITECH’s State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program. This Program funds states’ efforts to rapidly build capacity for exchanging health information across the health care system both within and across states. Awardees are responsible for increasing connectivity and enabling patient-centric information flow to improve the quality and efficiency of care. Key to this is the continual evolution and advancement of necessary governance, policies, technical services, business operations, and financing mechanisms for HIE over each State and SDE’s four-year performance period. This Program is building on existing efforts to advance regional and state level health information exchange while moving toward nationwide interoperability.

Over the next several weeks the remaining cooperative agreements will be awarded to approved applicants; these awardees will join the 40 awardees announced today in advancing mechanisms for health information sharing in their states and across the country.

State grantees in the first series of awards:

  • Rhode Island Quality Institute
  • State of Oregon
  • Georgia Department of Community Health
  • Kansas Health Information Exchange Project
  • Cabinet for Health and Family Services (KY)
  • Missouri Depart of Social Services
  • Colorado Regional Health Information Organization
  • Health Care Authority (Washington)
  • Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform Commonwealth of PA
  • Virginia Department of Health
  • State of Maine/Governor’s Office of Health Policy & Finance
  • The Hawaii Health Information Exchange
  • Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services
  • Government of the District of Columbia
  • Minnesota Department of Health
  • Virgin Islands Department of Health
  • Oticina del Gobernador La Fortaeza (PR)
  • Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
  • New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
  • Alabama Medicaid Agency
  • California Health and Human Services Agency
  • Utah Department of Health
  • Vermont Department of Human Services
  • Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation
  • Lovelace Clinic Foundation (New Mexico)
  • State of Tennessee
  • North Carolina Department of State Treasurer
  • West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
  • Arkansas Dept of Finance and Administration
  • Delaware Health Information Network
  • Michigan Department of Health
  • New York eHealth Collaborative, Inc.
  • Oklahoma Health Care Authority
  • Pacific Ecommerce Development Corporation (American Samoa)
  • Ohio Health Information Partnership, LLC
  • Arizona Governor’s Office of Economic Recovery
  • Nevada Department of Health and Human Services
  • Office of the Governor (Guam)
  • Commonwealth of the NMI, Department of Public Health
  • Office of the Governor (WY)
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President Obama Announces Recovery Act Awards to Community Health Centers in More Than 30 States

December 10th, 2009

President Obama Announces Recovery Act Awards to Build, Renovate Community Health Centers in More Than 30 States

Program to Create Jobs in Low-Income Communities, Help CHCs Serve More Than 500,000 Additional Patients

WASHINGTON – Today President Obama announced nearly $600 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) awards to support major construction and renovation projects at 85 community health centers nationwide and help networks of health centers adopt Electronic Health Records (EHR) and other Health Information Technology (HIT) systems.  The awards are expected to not only create new job opportunities in construction and health care, but also help provide care for more than half a million additional patients in underserved communities.  The President also announced a new demonstration initiative to support the delivery of advanced primary care to Medicare beneficiaries through community health centers.

“Together, these three initiatives – funding for construction, technology and a medical home demonstration project – won’t just save more money, and create more jobs, they’ll give more people the peace of mind of knowing that health care will be there for them and their families when they need it,” said President Obama.  “Ultimately, that’s what health reform is really about.”

“One of the first investments we made through the Recovery Act was in supporting our nation’s community health centers – and today we build on that progress by funding new construction and improvement projects at more than 80 facilities nationwide,” said Vice President Biden.  “This is what the Recovery Act is all about – providing immediate assistance for hard-hit families, improving our nation’s infrastructure and creating new opportunities for stable, well-paid work.”

To qualify for funding, a health facility must be a Federally Qualified “Community” Health Center.  Grants of $508.5 million will be provided through the Facility Investment Program (FIP) program to address pressing health center facility needs. Also, as much as $88 million will be available to help Health Center Controlled Networks improve operational effectiveness and clinical quality in health centers by providing management, financial, technology and clinical support services.

The new Recovery Act funds are the latest in a series of grants awarded to community health centers, which deliver preventive and primary care services at more than 7,500 service delivery sites around the country to patients regardless of their ability to pay.  Health centers serve more than 17 million patients, about 40 percent of whom have no health insurance.

Both programs will be administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

President Obama directed the Department of Health and Human Services to implement a demonstration initiative designed to evaluate the impact of the advanced primary care practice model on access, quality and cost of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries served by community health centers.

This model, known as the “medical home,” promotes accessible, continuous, and coordinated family-centered care.  Developed and administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the demonstration will last three years.  CMS anticipates that up to 500 health centers will participate.

“Because community health centers already provide comprehensive health care to people who face the greatest barriers to accessing care, these demonstration projects have the potential to support and improve the care delivered not only to Medicare beneficiaries, but also to others who rely on community health centers for primary care,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius.

HRSA has received a total of $2 billion through the Recovery Act to expand health care services to low-income and uninsured individuals through its health center program. To date, nearly $1.9 billion of these funds have been awarded to community-based organizations across the country.

FIP grants are listed below.  They were awarded through a competitive process:

Name of Health Center City State Award Amount
Health Services Inc. Montgomery Ala. $11,231,000
Seldovia Village Tribe Seldovia Alaska $2,258,091
Alaska Island Community Services Wrangell Alaska $3,736,490
North Country Healthcare Inc. Flagstaff Ariz. $7,433,776
Canyonlands Community Health Care Page Ariz. $1,840,695
Clinica Sierra Vista Bakersfield Calif. $4,008,251
Solano County Health & Social Services Dept. Fairfield Calif. $2,194,196
South Central Family Health Center Los Angeles Calif. $953,743
Contra Costa County Health Services Dept. Martinez Calif. $12,000,000
Golden Valley Health Center Merced Calif. $9,573,010
Petaluma Health Center Inc. Petaluma Calif. $8,906,986
Clinica De Salud Del Valle De Salinas Salinas Calif. $2,327,857
Santa Clara Valley Health And Hospital System San Jose Calif. $2,643,343
San Mateo County Health Services Agency San Mateo Calif. $1,765,876
Centro De Salud De La Comunidad San Ysidro San Ysidro Calif. $9,754,515
Vista Community Clinic Vista Calif. $11,473,212
Charter Oak Health Center Inc. Hartford Conn. $10,000,000
Community Health Services Inc. Hartford Conn. $6,160,675
Unity Health Care Inc. Washington D.C. $12,000,000
Suncoast Community Health Centers Inc. Riverview Fla. $3,767,091
Project Health Inc. Sumterville Fla. $5,222,774
Tampa Family Health Centers Inc. Tampa Fla. $2,903,145
Palmetto Health Council Inc. Atlanta Ga. $6,317,838
Southwest Georgia Health Care Inc. Richland Ga. $1,208,700
Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services Honolulu Hawaii $1,500,000
Lawndale Christian Health Center Chicago Ill. $10,000,000
Greater Elgin Family Care Center Elgin Ill. $2,452,172
PCC Community Wellness Center Oak Park Ill. $4,053,042
Crusaders Central Clinic Association Rockford Ill. $5,342,337
Healthnet Inc. Indianapolis Ind. $10,426,357
Primary Health Care Inc. Des Moines Iowa $2,615,429
Bucksport Regional Health Center Bucksport Maine $2,459,420
Sacopee Valley Health Center Parsonsfield Maine $802,951
Choptank Community Health System Inc. Denton Md. $1,085,542
Dorchester House Multi-Service Center Dorchester Mass. $7,024,029
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center East Boston Mass. $12,000,000
Healthfirst Family Care Center Inc. Fall River Mass. $12,000,000
Community Health Connections Inc. Fitchburg Mass. $10,732,754
Lowell Community Health Center Lowell Mass. $9,351,067
Mattapan Community Health Center Mattapan Mass. $11,550,000
Greater New Bedford Community Health Center New Bedford Mass. $5,331,145
Whittier Street Health Committee Inc. Roxbury Mass. $12,000,000
Baldwin Family Health Care Inc Baldwin Mich. $3,000,000
Intercare Community Health Network Bangor Mich. $8,500,000
Cedar Riverside Peoples Center Minneapolis Minn. $2,113,595
Central Mississippi Civic Improvement Jackson Miss. $3,881,043
Nevada Rural Health Centers Inc. Carson City Nev. $11,253,351
Avis Goodwin Community Health Center Dover N.H. $4,957,300
Ammonoosuc Community Health Services Inc. Littleton N.H. $2,641,157
Lamprey Health Care Newmarket N.H. $2,150,250
Zufall Health Center Inc. Dover N.J. $3,920,442
Ocean Health Initiatives Inc. Lakewood N.J. $4,753,399
Newark City Health and Human Services Newark N.J. $4,996,563
Newark Community Health Centers Inc. Newark N.J. $6,453,000
La Familia Medical Center Santa Fe N.M. $1,216,338
Montefiore Medical Center Bronx N.Y. $795,000
Urban Health Plan Inc. Bronx N.Y. $12,000,000
Family Health Network of Central New York Inc. Cortland N.Y. $1,400,387
Community Healthcare Network New York N.Y. $1,365,788
Family Healthcare Center Fargo N.D. $6,666,583
Capital Park Family Health Center Columbus Ohio $4,417,688
Muskingum Valley Health Centers Inc. McConnelsville Ohio $5,997,980
Butler County Community Health Consortium Inc. Middletown Ohio $4,669,197
Healthsource of Ohio Inc. Milford Ohio $9,764,690
Great Salt Plains Health Center Inc. Cherokee Okla. $2,828,647
Oklahoma Community Health Services Inc. Oklahoma City Okla. $11,985,000
Central City Concern Portland Ore. $8,950,000
Cornerstone Care Burgettstown Pa. $2,574,643
Keystone Rural Health Center Chambersburg Pa. $11,515,000
Southeast Lancaster Health Services Lancaster Pa. $3,250,000
Esperanza Health Center Philadelphia Pa. $6,552,799
Greater Philadelphia Health Action Inc. Philadelphia Pa. $3,937,796
Squirrel Hill Health Center Pittsburgh Pa. $792,700
Salud Integral En La Montana Inc. Naranjito P.R. $8,752,140
Rincon Rural Health Initiative Project Inc Rincon P.R $5,915,227
Little River Medical Center Inc. Little River S.C. $5,523,205
Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health Services Inc. Ridgeland S.C. $7,912,493
Brownsville Community Health Center Brownsville Texas $7,500,000
Project Vida Health Center El Paso Texas $6,000,422
Su Clinica Familiar Harlingen Texas $7,500,000
El Centro Del Barrio Inc. San Antonio Texas $11,051,134
Heart of Texas Community Health Center Inc. Waco Texas $5,296,239
Blue Ridge Medical Center Inc. Arrington Va. $5,000,000
Community Health Center of Burlington Inc. Burlington Vt. $10,964,476
La Clinica/South Columbia Rural Health Pasco Wash. $7,425,870
Total:  $508,549,051

FACT SHEET

Community Health Centers and the Recovery Act

Health centers deliver preventive and primary care services at more than 7,500 service delivery sites around the country to patients regardless of their ability to pay; charges for services are set according to income.  Health centers serve more than 17 million patients, about 38 percent of whom have no health insurance.

Three sets of health center awards have already been funded through Recovery Act appropriations on the following dates:

  • On March 2, President Obama announced grants worth $155 million to establish 126 new health center sites.  Those grants will provide access to essential preventive and primary health care for more than 750,000 people in 39 states and two territories.
  • On March 27, HHS also awarded $338 Million in Increased Demand for Services grants for health centers. Health centers are using these funds to provide care to more than 2 million additional patients over the next two years, including approximately 1 million uninsured people. In addition, over the next two years, health centers will use the funds to create and retain approximately 6,400 health center jobs.
  • On June 29, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the release of $851 million in Recovery Act grants to upgrade over 1,500 health center sites and open their doors to more patients.  More than 650 centers will use the funds for health information technology (HIT) systems, and nearly 400 health centers will adopt and expand the use of electronic health records.

The Facility Investment Program awards announced today are the fourth set of health center grants provided through the Recovery Act.

Facility Investment Program (FIP) Grants

The Obama Administration announced $508.5 million awarded in Facility Investment Program grants to community health centers nationwide to address the pressing needs of health center facilities and expanded their capacities to serve an additional 500,000 patients.  The funds were made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act).  The Facility Investment Program (FIP) grants support major construction and renovation at our nation’s health centers.  These funds will help health centers build new facilities, modernize current sites and create employment opportunities in underserved communities.

Recipients of FIP funds are expected to commit grant funds and complete the proposed projects within two years. The grants will cover two types of projects:

1. Alteration/renovation: This project type includes work required to modernize, improve or change the interior arrangements or other physical characteristics of an existing facility, and purchase/install equipment. Alterations and renovations make existing space usable for another purpose. This type of project does not increase square footage.

2. Construction (new site or expansion of existing site): This project type includes—(i) adding a new structure to an existing site that increases the total square footage of the facility; and (ii) permanently affixing structure (e.g., modular units, prefabricated buildings) to real property (i.e., land).

FIP grants, along with the entire health center program, are administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCN)

The Obama Administration announced the availability of $88 million in grants to help networks of health centers adopt Electronic Health Records (EHR) and other Health Information Technology (HIT) systems.  The funds are part of the $1.5 billion allotted to the Health Resources and Services Administration, a component of the Department of Health and Human Services, by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) for construction, renovation, equipment, and the acquisition of HIT systems for health center programs.

The Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCN) grant program was developed in 1994 to support the creation, development, and operation of electronic networks, controlled by groups of collaborating health centers, to improve health center operations. The networks are controlled by and operate on behalf of HRSA-supported health centers.  Each network comprises at least three collaborating organizations.

HCCNs integrate core business functions among their individual health center members, who may be anywhere in the country, but are often in the same state or region.  The core business functions these networks share are: administrative, clinical, managed care, fiscal, or health information systems.

Networks provide these functions at or below marketplace cost to their members.  In launching a network, members assess their respective environments and existing infrastructure to determine the most appropriate mix of business functions to share.  The networks seek to:

  • increase access for the low-income, uninsured population they predominantly serve;
  • enhanced the efficiency of their operations; or
  • create a higher level of performance and value.

Networks that receive HCCN funds are given great flexibility in determining their activities.  Each network is unique, depending on its state or regional environment, marketplace, collaborators, needs and interests.

HRSA awarded $36 million in grants to support the operations of 53 Health Center Controlled Networks in fiscal year 2009.

Medicare Federally Qualified Health Center Advanced Primary Care Practice Demonstration Initiative

Today, President Obama directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement a demonstration initiative to support federal qualified health centers in delivering advanced primary care to Medicare beneficiaries.  HHS’ agencies, Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will work together to conduct this 3-year demonstration and anticipate that 500 federally qualified health centers will participate.

Advanced Primary Care Model

The Advanced Primary Care model, also known as the patient-centered medical home, promotes targeted, accessible, continuous, and coordinated family-centered care.  The demonstration is designed to evaluate the impact of the advanced primary care practice model on access, quality and cost of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries served by federal qualified health centers.

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)

FQHCs provide comprehensive primary and preventive health care for medically underserved populations who face the greatest economic and geographic barriers to accessing care.  Overseen by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Health Center program is a national network of more than 1,100 community, migrant, homeless and public housing health center grantees. These organizations provide health care at more than 7,500 clinical sites, ranging from large medical facilities to mobile vans.  In 2008, health centers served more than 17 million medically underserved people.  FQHCs provide an environment to demonstrate the benefits of medical homes can offer to Medicare beneficiaries.

New Medicare Demonstration

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and HRSA will develop the demonstration, which would include a solicitation of applications from FQHC grantees.  To participate, FQHC grantees will need to demonstrate that their clinic sites have the capacity to deliver continuous and coordinated care across providers and settings, including improving access to care by expanding service hours, facilitating and following up on referrals, and managing medications prescribed by different physicians.   FQHC clinic sites selected to participate in the demonstration will receive a monthly care management fee for each Medicare fee-for-service beneficiary they enroll into the demonstration, in addition to payment for any other covered Medicare services they provide.

Research Design

This demonstration will evaluate whether federal qualified health centers that deliver advanced primary care improve access and quality, promote appropriate use of services, and reduce health care costs.  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin soliciting applications in spring 2010, aiming to begin implementation of the 3-year demonstration initiative in January 2011.  CMS will conduct an independent evaluation of this demonstration.

** This release has been corrected.

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