Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) has awarded CVN a three-year $2.25 million HCCN grant to strengthen the quality of care and improve patient health outcomes achieved by Health Center Program award recipients and look-alikes. CVN’s HCCN grant extends to July 31, 2019. Upon contract award, CVN adopted the name Healthy Communities Collaborative Network for its HCCN. Through the HCCN Project, CVN is actively engaged in addressing the particular needs of each participating health center (PHC) as they relate to each of HRSA’s Core Objectives and Focus Areas for the HCCN Project:

• • Core Objective A: Health IT Implementation and Meaningful Use – Increasing the effective use of HIT solutions to improve the quality of care in health centers, improve individual and population health, and attain MU requirements.

• • Core Objective B: Data Quality and Reporting – Improving health center data collection, analysis, and reporting to enhance comprehensive, integrated, high-quality data reporting at all PHCs.

• • Core Objective C: Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Population Health Management – Increasing secure electronic data exchange with patients, unaffiliated providers, and organizations to support patient centered health care delivery and support population health management.

• Core Objective D: Quality Improvement – Advancing clinical and operational quality improvements which will improve clinical and financial quality measures and advance PCMH implementation.