New and Noteworthy

 
Managing Your Health Center’s Cost of Care

As the health center industry transforms, health center success requires an even greater focus on cost management, including learning how to calculate cost of care and identifying opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining high quality. To help health centers better understand the factors that influence the cost of care, Capital Link recently released some new publications and is offering webinar and in-person trainings.

The new publications, described under Resources, include a Capital Link study examining four-year trends across a series of cost-focused ratios and an updated NACHC issue brief providing a methodology for calculating costs. We also recently delivered a webinar providing an overview of information from these resources. The recording and slides are available here.

We’re also presenting Understanding Your Cost of Care: An Introduction to New Resources for Community Health Centers at the NACHC FOM/IT conference in Las Vegas, NV on October 16, 2018.

In addition to these valuable resources, Capital Link has developed the Cost Comparison Snapshot, a new report from our proprietary database of UDS information and health center financial audits. The Snapshot provides health centers with multi-year trends on medical cost of care metrics. It illustrates how your health center’s specific costs compare to peer groups, highlighting areas for further examination to support performance improvement. View a sample report here.

Open for Your Input! National Health Center Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment

HRSA has requested the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), a HRSA-funded National Cooperative Agreement (NCA), to conduct a national health center needs assessment in collaboration with the other 19 HRSA-funded NCA organizations, including Capital Link.

Health center responses to this consolidated needs assessment will inform the NCAs’ development, planning, dissemination, and evaluation of future operational training and technical assistance to best support health center operational needs. The survey is available here and we encourage all health center staff members to complete it. For more information, please contact KaRon Campbell at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Health Center Resource Clearinghouse is Now Live!

This comprehensive website provides easy access to a broad framework of resources, tools, and information developed by the National Cooperative Agreement (NCA) organizations, and additional partners soon! Check it out at www.healthcenterinfo.org.