Creating Strong Community Health Center Partnerships

Today's rapidly shifting health care landscape, including an increased emphasis on population health, clinical integration, and value-based care, is spurring community health centers (CHCs) to forge new partnerships to improve care and ensure long-term sustainability. This collection of resources is intended to help CHCs forge successful, long-lasting partnerships.

A Partnership of Equals: Early Lessons from Mergers of Similarly Sized and Positioned Health Centers

El Cambio Consulting

Creating Strong Community Health Center Partnerships

This issue brief explores two mergers of similarly sized FQHCs in California in the last two years.

Mergers and Acquisitions: A Practical Guide for Community Health Centers

Greg Facktor & Associates, Regina Boyle, Curt Degenfelder

Creating Strong Community Health Center Partnerships

Many Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are exploring acquisitions and mergers as a means of ensuring sustainability, expanding services, and maintaining patient access to basic health care services in underserved areas. CHCF has created this manual to provide support and guidance for FQHCs contemplating a consolidation with another provider entity.

Clinics Are Combining to Achieve Efficiencies and Improve Care

October 12, 2020

J. Duncan Moore Jr.

Creating Strong Community Health Center Partnerships

CHCF releases toolkit to guide community health centers through a daunting process.

A Hands-On Guide to Cultural Integration in Community Health Partnerships and Alliances

Creating Strong Community Health Center Partnerships

This guidebook aims to help community health organizations successfully integrate organizational cultures when forging partnerships. Tools include actionable insights, hands-on exercises, and real-world examples.

Partnering to Succeed

The MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and JSI Research & Training Institute

Creating Strong Community Health Center Partnerships

This paper outlines seven partnership models that are helping small community health centers (CHCs) improve care and thrive under value-based payment. It also provides a framework to assess which partnership models are right for different CHCs.

Seven Partnerships to Strengthen Community Health Centers

February 28, 2018

Kathryn Phillips

Payment & Financing

In California, the smaller community health centers that need the most support are the least likely to get it, and that poses a risk for the thousands of Californians with low incomes who rely on them. As California’s entire health care safety net moves forward, we can’t leave these smaller centers and their patients behind.