A Quarterly Resource Digest from Capital Link | Winter 2020

Making the Case for the Value of Health Centers

With the NACHC Policy & Issues Forum coming up next month, mandatory funding expiring in May, and upcoming elections, now is the time to demonstrate to legislators and other stakeholders the tremendous impact your health center members have on the state, the communities they serve, and the nation as a whole.

Make your case for the value of health centers with Capital Link’s Value & Impact report. A powerful advocacy and fundraising tool, the Value & Impact report clearly illustrates the compelling story of how health centers spur economic growth, contribute to statewide and national health care savings, and provide access to care for vulnerable populations.

What is in the report?

Value & Impact infographic reports visually tell the story of your member health centers along the following domains:

1. Employment and economic impacts, using economic modeling software

2. Savings to Medicaid and the health care system

3. Access to quality care

The "statewide" PCA/HCCN version of the report is an aggregate impact summary of all member health centers. We also offer an individual health center infographic that you can order for each of your members at a volume discount. 

How have other PCAs used the report?

PCAs in 33 states across the country have demonstrated their members' impact with our Value & Impact infographics. Below are two recent examples.

• The Louisiana Primacy Care Association (LPCA) issued a press release highlighting that health centers in the state generated $772 million in economic impact, while saving the healthcare system nearly $1 billion. Read the full press release here. LPCA also included the Value & Impact report findings in their annual report. See here on p. 24-25.

• Members of Health Center Partners of Southern California (HCPSC) shared Value & Impact reports with state and federal legislators to demonstrate the impact they have on the communities they serve. Aggregate results showed a total economic impact of $1.71 billion, 11,412 jobs, and 806,158 patients served. Read more in HCPSC’s recently released Impact Report for 2018-2019, here on p. 9.

Why Capital Link?

• Our in-house database contains over 80% of health centers’ audits and 100% of UDS data from the past decade – minimizing your need to gather the necessary data from your members.

• We perform all data analysis – saving you the time.

• We hold a national subscription for the IMPLAN multipliers necessary for calculating economic impact – saving you the cost of purchasing software (a potential cost savings of thousands of dollars annually).

• The final result is a clean, easy-to-read infographic report customized specifically for your health center – citing the most vetted industry research and lending credibility to the measures.

How can I learn more?

If you have any questions, or if you would like information on pricing and ordering, please contact Jennifer Saber, Director of Data and Information Systems at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 617-422-0350.

Our Services

Sustainability and Growth Planning

State and Local Market Assessments analyze service areas in geographic, demographic, and economic terms, helping health centers evaluate and determine current and future patient
needs and helping PCAs/HCCNs identify areas of unmet need in the state for future planning.

Scenario Modeling helps forecast the impact of changing patient care models and revenues based on payment reform. Evaluating potential scenarios helps health centers better plan for impacts on operations, including patient utilization, care delivery, and service offerings.

Strategic Planning Facilitation walks health centers through the process of assessing key opportunities and challenges, identifying environmental influences, examining operating systems, establishing objectives, mobilizing staff and other stakeholders, and distilling information into actions, using our toolkit.

Advancing Financial & Operational Strength provides health center staff at all levels with in-depth training and resources related to financial and operational benchmarking; revenue cycle management; aligning people, place and process; capital planning; and performance improvement (to name a few) to improve business operations and financial health. The program launched in 2015 in California and has expanded in partnership with PCAs in to Missouri, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT Alternative Payment Methodology tools and trainings to help health centers prepare for value-based reimbursement. 

Operations and Financial Management

Performance Evaluation Profiles provide multi-year performance trends, benchmarking the results against state, national, and peer medians across 73 financial and operational metrics.

Strategic Revenue Cycle Management training and technical assistance helps health centers to improve financial stability and operating performance.

Capital Project Financing

Capital Project Planning offers assistance in developing the rationale, feasibility, justification, and detailed plans necessary to complete a successful facilities project.

Financing Assistance helps health centers determine its plan of finance; complete its business plan and financial projections; obtain credit enhancement (if necessary); and structure and obtain the most favorable sources of financing through a variety of sources, including through USDA, New Markets Tax Credit financing and the HRSA Loan Guarantee Program.

Health Center Value and Impact

Value & Impact Analysis reports utilize key metrics from our database and IMPLAN economic modeling software to help health centers evaluate and communicate their value to payers,
policy makers, and community stakeholders.

For more information about Capital Link’s services, please contact Jonathan Chapman, Chief Project Officer, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Our Resources 

Publications

We offer publications available for download free of charge on our website. Topics include national trends, performance improvement, capital project planning, capital project financing, and patient centered medical home. Access our publications here. 

Events and Webinars

Capital Link regularly exhibits and conducts presentations and education sessions at industry conferences for health centers and primary care associations. Find a list of our upcoming events here.

We offer webinars designed to offer useful information for health centers on a wide range of topics. The webinars have no charge, but participation is limited. Find a schedule of upcoming webinars here. Access recordings of any of our past webinars here. 

Learning Collaboratives

Capital Link’s Learning Collaboratives are designed to help increase the capacity of health centers in a peer-to-peer learning format. Conducted through a series of webinars and virtual discussions facilitated by Capital Link, our Collaboratives are focused on topics such as planning and financing capital development projects or forming non-traditional partnerships with organizations to address Social Determinants of Health. Learn more about our current and upcoming learning collaboratives here.