Health Center Highlights

Capital Link regularly profiles health centers that have successfully completed their expansion plans. These health center stories are available on our website. The next two stories will highlight Mountain Park Health Center, AZ and Family Health Center, MI, which both used Healthy Futures Fund financing—and subordinated loans from Capital Link’s affiliate Community Health Center Capital Fund—for their projects.

Several consortia/Primary Care Associations are also helping their members strengthen business operations during this period of rapid industry change through Capital Link’s Advancing Financial Strengths (AFS) program. Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County is completing its second year of AFS, while the Missouri Primary Care Association is kicking off an AFS program this spring, and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers is hosting a pre-conference session at their upcoming Community Health Institute.

AFS is a technical assistance program that provides health center staff from all levels of the organization with financial and operational benchmarking assistance, tools, and training. At the start of the program, Capital Link provides the participants with a Performance Evaluation Profile, a customized diagnostic tool to help them to better understand their own financial status as well as how they compare to other centers in the region and state. Participants are then invited to a series of webinars and/or onsite trainings which serve as a platform for sharing best practices and building knowledge. As a final phase of AFS, participants can be provided with customized on-site and/or remote technical assistance focused on improving health center business operations and financial health.