Annual Impact!
OACHC is proud of the work that we were able to accomplish in 2017. It is through dedication, vision, and great partnerships that 2017 can go down in the history books as a year of growth and expansion! Please join us as we look back to celebrate this prosperous year.
OACHC Staff Updates
- Avani Desai was hired as the Performance Improvement Specialist
- Lindsey Thomas was hired as the Office Manager
- Lauren Husein was promoted to Communication and Events Coordinator
- Samantha Porter was promoted to Director of Communication and Events
- Increased number of Ohio Health Center e-Advocates by 89%
- Record number (12 of 18) Members of Congress that signed various Health Center Appropriation Letters, including Senator Portman’s first signature of support
- National Health Center Week – more than 80 celebrations and events held across the state
- Save Medicaid, Save Lives rally featured over 1,000 Ohioans collectively supporting Ohio’s Medicaid program – health centers were a leader in this effort!
- 340B advocacy yielded 14,997 connections to Ohio legislators that played the key role in preventing devastating outcomes
- Ohio is the first state to have a Key Contact for every Member of Congress in their delegation
- Increased Twitter reach (impressions) by 92%
- Ohio boasts three Advocacy Centers of Excellence (OACHC maintained ACE status for 2017)
- Lorain County Health & Dentistry
- Valley View Health Centers
- Compass Community Health
Clinical Quality & Oral Health
Clinical Quality Department:
- Funded Projects:
- Medication Therapy Management
- FluFIT
- CenteringPregnancy
- HCCN
- Undiagnosed Hypertension and Pre-Diabetes
- HPV Vaccination
- Infant Vitality Initiative
- Ongoing Tasks and New Ventures
- Health Center Quality Improvement Grant Awards
- 45 FQHCs received 156 awards totaling $3,582,514
- Comprehensive Primary Care Program started January 1, 2017
- 19 FQHCs/57 Sites in first round
- Healthy People 2020 Awards were given to those health centers that surpassed 4 out of 8 measures (5 health centers recognized)
- Data Dashboard developed for all measures (medical, non-medical, dental)
- 35 FQHCs are sharing data with OACHC
- Quality Peer Network – monthly calls continued, attendance is being tracked
- Chief Medical Officer Networking call are every other month, 2 webinars were hosted for them
- Online reporting form for measure data
- Participated in 80% by 2018 Colorectal Cancer Roundtable Forum in Decatur, Georgia
- Strategic Plan updated
- goto Meeting was set up for all networking calls
- CenteringPregnancy is now active in 10 FQHCs
- UDS deep dive webinar
- 2017 changes
- 2016 best practices
- Ohio Quality Improvement Network (OQIN) Quality Committee
- Quality program policy created
- Care Management program created
- Behavioral Health Networking established
- eClinicalWorks user group initiated
- Updated website pages
- Re-elected to the Executive Committee of Ohio Partners for Cancer Control
- Oral Health Initiative: Screening for High Blood Pressure in Ohio’s FQHC Dental Practices
- Received grant from Ohio Dental Association Foundation
- Provided 37 Dental Centers 450 BP Monitors; one for every operatory
- Began with 24 CHC reporting data. By 5th Quarter 30 CHC are reporting.
- 40,594 number of patients screened. 19% found to have high blood pressure
- Presented data at 3 national conferences: ACU, CHI, NNOHA and 1 poster presentation
- Dental Health Trainings & Events
- Dental Sealant Webinar
- 2 Day Dental Track at OACHC Annual Conference
- Professional Days of Recruitment and Ohio State Dental School and Case Western School of Dental Medicine
- National Oral Health Innovation and Integration Network (NOHIIN) DQF grant
- Regional Oral Health Connection Team Representative
- Children’s Oral Health Action Team Co-Chair of Board
- 37 Dental Centers: 3 new Dental Centers: Family Healthcare of Northwest Ohio, Neighborhood Family Practice, Rocking Horse Health Center
- Attended 2 Professional Days (Recruitment): Ohio State Dental School and Case Western School of Dental Medicine.
- 21 Re-Think Your Drink Kits sent out to CHCs. Grant from Delta Dental
Workforce – Ohio Primary Care Workforce Initiative
- The Ohio Primary Care Workforce Initiative (OPCWI) received funding through the Ohio General Assembly and Kasich Administration to continue for Years 3-4 of the program
- Years 1-2 of OPCWI
- 24% increase in the number of students precepted in FQHCs (1,982 in total)
- > 200,000 student clinical hours experienced in FQHCs and $4,196,576 reimbursed to FQHCs for serving as clinical sites
- Held the first Annual Meeting for OPCWI, bringing in state and national leaders to discuss primary care issues
- Contracted with Germane Solutions to explore additional primary care Graduate Medical Education opportunities in Ohio FQHCs
- Awarded HealthPath Foundation of Ohio workforce development grant for a “FQHC Pipeline to Health Careers” project
Events & Communications
- OACHC Logo Trademarked
- On-going communications to members via the Weekly Update email, the monthly eNews email and the weekly informer blog
- Facilitation of 10 in-house webinars
- Ultimate Health Center Champions Round 2 Contest video, graphics, outreach and management (Total of 34.4K votes)
- Raise Your Voice for Ohio! Advocacy Video
- Oral Health Ohio Video
- Thank You Ohio Department of Medicaid Video
- Significant growth in OACHC Conference attendees and exhibitors
- Introduction of Conference App to streamline our conferences and eliminate more paper
- Trainings & Events held this year:
- Strategic Planning 1/13/17
- Delivering KNOCKOUT Customer Service 1/19/17
- 2017 Annual Conference 2/27/17
- CFO Boot Camp 3/21/17
- FTCA Training 4/20/17
- CHC Managers & Supervisors Training 5/3/17
- 2017 Community Health Coding Bootcamp 6/27/17
- Legendary Customer Service Workshop 9/14/17
- 2017 Fall Operations Conference 10/18/17
- UDS Training 12/7/17
