Creating Strong Community Health Center Partnerships - California Health Care Foundation

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

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

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

Kathryn Phillips

Providers, 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 low-income Californians 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.