FACHC : Florida Association Of Community Health Centers

Health Disparities Collaboratives

• Overview
  The continuing health disparities that lead to differences in death from chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, as well as other illnesses, magnify the importance of addressing these issues without hesitation. To that effort, in 1998, President Bill Clinton presented a Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Initiative which set high national goals related to healthcare for all Americans.
• Planned Care Model
  To eliminate health disparities and improve functional and clinical outcomes, health care organizations must change the way they deliver care. Implementation of the Planned Care Model calls for a transformation in the delivery of care.
• Performance Improvement
  The Performance Improvement Model provides a process to improve the quality of care at an accelerated pace.
• Learning Model
  The Learning Model, adopted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) uses a process of pre-work, learning and action periods designed to effect organizational change by way of intensive learning from experts and one another.
• Expansion Mini-Grant
  FACHC has facilitated an active partnership with the Florida Department of Health Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program Office. This partnership was formed to seek means whereby Florida's Federally Qualified Health Centers currently participating in one of the Bureau of Primary Health Care’s (BPHC) Health Disparities Collaboratives (HDC) can be financially assisted with spreading the concepts learned from the Planned Care Model further within the delivery care system.
• Participating Centers
  The Florida Association of Community Health Centers supports 30 Federally Qualified Health Centers throughout Florida to sustain and disseminate positive changes and results gained by participating in a chronic disease collaborative.
• Measures
  Measures on Asthma, Cancer Screening, Diabetes, and more.