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Data
Resources
Capital
Link Resource Manuals
BPHC Loan Guarantee
Program
RESOURCES
As part of our assistance to health centers,
Capital Link has developed several resources for health centers seeking to
complete a capital project. Depending upon the needs of
the community health center, Capital Link provides health centers and
Primary Care Associations (PCAs) with Resource Documents to assist in accomplishing specific tasks related to
the capital development process.
Capital
Ink Newsletter
In
September, 2004, Capital Link began publishing its newest e-resource, the
Capital Ink Newsletter. The purpose of the newsletter is to provide
updates on Capital Link programs and services and to educate health centers
and PCAs on creative solutions to financing capital projects and to
navigating through the capital development process. Contact Mark
Lurtz at Capital Link for past issues, to subscribe to Capital Ink or
with any questions regarding newsletter content.
2006
Spring Forward Edition 
2005
Fall Edition
Data
Resources
Capital
Link's Data Resources Team provides health center industry-specific
financial data to
PCAs and health centers nationally. Our three existing data
resource tools have benefited hundreds of health centers and more than 29
PCAs for close to 7 years.
Many
PCAs combine this report with Capital Link's Financial Trends
Analysis!! Doing so allows a debt capacity assessment of the health
centers as a group to determine the combination of debt and non-debt
sources that will be needed to fund the capital needs. States can
also use this information to develop financing programs!!!
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Statewide
Economic Impact Analysis - Utilizes economic modeling techniques
to determine the economic impact of health center business operations on
their communities. Demonstrates that an investment in health
centers is an investment in the community. Also includes sections
on the PCA and health center's mission, services, challenges and
opportunities and methodology. Reports may be tailored to meet the
PCA's specific needs. Each participating health center also
receives a complimentary baseline
economic impact profile report.
Capital
Link provides financial information that has proven useful to health centers
and PCAs in many ways including:
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Advocacy
at the local, state and national level to inform legislators about
health centers and the unique needs of the industry
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Access
to valuable industry-specific financial benchmark data
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Comparison
to other like-size (operating budget) health centers
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Up-to-date
relevant financial information
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Improve
financial performance and plan for capital needs
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Capital
Link Services
This is a one-page information
sheet describing, in general, our services. For more information on Capital Link's
services, click on our Services
page.
Capital
Link Manuals
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"Capital Funding
Options for Rural Community Health Centers: A Guidebook and Resource Listing"
(available in print only), updated July, 2004
This book has been developed to assist rural community health centers in
the effort to identify and obtain funding resources for building and equipment projects.
Although this book is intended for rural community health centers, much of the information
included is also useful to community health centers in urban and areas
where the population size varies. We hope
it will help health centers nationwide meet the capital challenges related to providing
increased access to comprehensive medical, dental, mental health and substance abuse
services for the nation's underserved and uninsured.
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"Developing a
Health Center: A Guide for Health Center Staff and Boards on Managing the Design and
Construction Process"
(available in print only), updated July, 2004
Facility development is a complex endeavor that relies on many different
professions. It can be intimidating to realize that you must depend on all these
people—and pay them a lot of money—and yet you may know little about their
professions or how to manage them.
The philosophy behind this manual is that you—the
health center leadership—must put yourself in control of your project from the
beginning. This manual will help you understand the process of developing a facility
project, and will help you formulate a management approach for success.
Capital
Link provides assistance to health centers seeking to navigate through
the capital development process!
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"Creating a
Business Plan for a Community Health Center Capital Project: A 'How-To' Manual"
(available in print only), updated July, 2004
This
manual is a business planning tool for a health center facility
project. It is designed to provide healthcare professionals with a
"hands-on" approach to writing a business plan. This
"user-friendly" primer will allow you to flip back and forth within and between
sections as you write your own business plan. Capital
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"Capital Project
Case Study: Great Brook Valley Health Center, Worcester, Massachusetts"
(available in print only), August 1998
This case study is
an in-depth look at the process by which a small federally funded Section 330 community
health center, located in a public housing development, was able to build a beautiful new
facility. The case study is designed as a teaching tool for community health centers'
executive management and their board of directors who have the need and desire for
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BPHC Loan Guarantee Program
Application
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overview available as Word
or PDF
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PIN 2003-20 guidance
available as Word or PDF
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application available as
Word
or PDF
The BPHC Loan Guarantee Program Application
has
recently been revised. This document, along with a Capital Link Business Plan Manual
(described in Capital Link's "Creating a Business Plan for
a Community Health Center Capital Project: A 'How-To' Manual"), constitutes the updated application information for community
health centers that are interested in applying to the program. Please contact us for more information on this program.
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Health
Centers and Primary Care Associations please contact
Capital Link for a free copy of the resource documents listed above.
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