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Family Care Health Center

St. Louis, MO

Providing Planning & Capital Solutions for Health Center Building Projects Since 1994

           

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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.

  • Capital Needs Report - Report with summary of participating health centers' aggregate capital needs by project type, project priorities and technical assistance needs. This is a great Advocacy Tool for demonstrating need for State and local capital investments in health centers!

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!!!

  • Financial Trends Analysis - Analyzes up to 4-year state wide financial trends based on most recent audited statements of participating health centers.  

    • Each participating PCA will receive an aggregate state report on its members' financial trends.

    • Each participating member health center will receive:

      • A personalized report comparing that health center to the statewide trends (only available through PCA participation)

      • Key financial ratios with ratio definition, formula and Capital Link recommended benchmarks

  • 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:

  • Advocacy at the local, state and national level to inform legislators about health centers and the unique needs of the industry

  • Access to valuable industry-specific financial benchmark data

  • Comparison to other like-size (operating budget) health centers

  • Up-to-date relevant financial information

  • 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.

 

DHC manual "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!

 

BP manual

 

"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 Link also provides business planning assistance to health centers!

 

CS manual "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 expansion and modernization of their health care facilities.

 

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BPHC Loan Guarantee Program Application

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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.

To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, which will allow you to view and print PDF files, just click here: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Health Centers and Primary Care Associations please contact Capital Link for a free copy of the resource documents listed above.

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Capital Link40 Court Street, 10th FloorBoston, MA 02108
P: 617-422-0350F: 617-542-0191

 

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Last updated: July 18, 2006