Behavioral Health Integration
CCHN and Colorado Community Health Centers (CHCs) are committed to ensuring that patients have access to behavioral health services that are accessible, affordable, and high quality. CCHN provides technical assistance on behavioral health integration, and supports partnerships between CHCs, community mental health centers (CMHCs), and behavioral health organizations (BHOs).
For more information, contact Sonia Sheck at sonia@cchn.org or (303) 861-5165, ext. 291.
Oral Health Integration
CCHN and Colorado CHCs are committed to ensuring that patients have access to oral health care services that are accessible, affordable, and high quality. CCHN provides technical assistance to help the CHCs incorporate dental health into the full range of CHC health care.
For more information, contact Sonia Sheck at sonia@cchn.org or (303) 861-5165, ext. 291.
Clinician Committee
Colorado Clinicians Advisory Network
The Colorado Clinicians Advisory Network (CCAN) is a network of CHC medical directors with the mission to advise the CCHN Board of Directors on issues of clinical relevance and provide a forum for mutual support and information sharing. Benefits of CCAN participation include networking and peer learning opportunities for CHC medical directors, participation in quality improvement initiatives, the opportunity to work closely with partners to advocate for regulations that assist CHC providers in providing quality care, and data analysis activities to inform high quality care at Health Centers.
Colorado Dental Health Network
The Colorado Dental Health Network (CDHN) is comprised of CHC dental directors or their designated dental staff representatives. CDHN’s primary purpose is to improve the oral health of the patients served in community, migrant, and homeless Health Centers by assuring reasonable access and quality of care. Benefits of CDHN participation include opportunities to network and enhance relationships of mutual support and information sharing through participation in round table discussions related to clinic issues. These topics include quality improvement, data analysis, workforce responsibilities and salaries, regulation, advocacy, and budget templates for organizations that are expanding or building new dental services.
Patient Safety
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Patient Safety and Pharmacy Collaborative (PSPC): Denver Health, Sunrise Community Health, Inc., and Clinica Family Health Services, Inc., are a part of third year of HRSA PSPC 3.0 Initiative to integrate clinical pharmacy services and decrease adverse drug events. CCHN Quality Coaches serve as consultants to participating sites to assist them with improvement strategies.
Risk Management, Emergency Preparedness, Federal Tort Claims Act, Accreditation, Clinical Outcomes, Uniform Data System (UDS) Measures: CCHN staff provide technical assistance and facilitate trainings as requested in these quality initiatives to Colorado CHCs. CCHN staff have established relationships with program staff at National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and HRSA to help answer questions and provide resources to Colorado CHCs.
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