Quality Initiatives

Using the Planned Care Model and the Model for Improvement Hawaii’s Community Health Centers embark upon innovative ways towards changing their system of health care.

The Bureau of Primary Health Care has invited all of their grantees to look for better ways to improve their delivery of quality health care that will satisfy their staff as well as their patients. Currently, 90% of community health centers nationwide have taken the challenge and participated in the Health Disparities Collaborative. To find out more about this collaborative click on to the national website http://www.healthdisparities.net/.

Health Disparities Collaboratives (HDC)

An integrated and collaborative national effort to eliminate disparities and improve delivery systems of healthcare to all individuals living in the United States under the care of HRSA-supported Health Centers.

Strategic Goals of the HDC program include:

1. Introduce and assist in the implementation of the Care Model and the Model for Improvement in as many Health Centers as possible that have appropriately filed an application to join the HDC.
2. Improve the systematic tracking and reporting of the improvements made by the HDC at all appropriate levels: Health Centers, State (Cluster) and National; as well as by the HDC Program itself through improved quality management and reporting systems.
3. Develop improved community organizational resources and alignment of community activities of relevance to the Health Centers at the local, state, and national levels, via an evolution of the competencies appropriate to better understand at all levels the Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) approach; and the relevance to each of the improvements for all components of the Care Model, in order to improve the care delivered to all active patients of the Health Centers.
4. Implement a matrix of measures for primary health care that appropriately address all HDC activities to encompass the practice of integrated improved primary health care, in the context of Healthy People 2010 goals and HRSA Strategic Goals for 2005-2010.
5. Help Health Centers prepare better for the evolving Health Information Technology market and the increasing data driven environment of pay-for-performance and other related activities for both individual patient care and population-based care

Clinical Leadership Team: CLT 2007-08 Workplan

Quality Improvement Committee: Quality Improvement Plan 2007-08

For more information contact Charlene Blair