We’re changing our Bureau. BPHC REACH will help us achieve these goals:
- Identify and test new ways to accomplish our mission
- Reduce effort by staff and health centers
- Improve use of resources and tools
This has been a multi-year effort. We gathered input from health centers and strategic partners. Now we’re starting to take new approaches.
REACH Goals
- Become a "best place to work."
- Organize operations to better use staff expertise.
- Grow the next generation of leaders.
- Comply with program requirements.
- Simplify program requirement assessments.
- Promote continuous compliance.
- Reduce burden on grantees and staff.
- Implement grants successfully.
- Provide more support to health centers as they use funding.
- Produce better outcomes for patients and communities.
- Create high-performing grantees.
- Develop a new framework for assessing how health centers perform.
- Tailor technical assistance to help grantees improve.
- Be recognized as leader in primary health care.
- Lead a national dialogue on primary care for our target groups.
- Establish new priorities and actions in the field.
How we continue to improve
- Made changes to how we organize our Bureau. These are part of agency changes.
- Added new functions and teams.
- Support maximizing the impact of program funds
- Activate health center innovation and learning communities
- Increasing our ability to conduct data analytics.
- Run them regularly
- Ensure they’re advanced and thorough
- The Office of Strategic Business Operations will be the center of this activity.
- Boosting staff talents and expertise.
- Meet the needs of our grantees
- Promote staff development
- Changing how we monitor health centers.
Shift from geographic, generalist to a specialized, functional approach.- The Office of Health Center Program Monitoring will ensure health centers meet or exceed requirements.
- The Office of Health Center Investment Oversight will focus on supplemental funding. They’ll support health centers in achieving the intended outcomes.
- The names of our Offices of Policy and Program Development and Quality Improvement won’t change.
- These four offices will promote innovation and performance. They have multiple aims: To improve outcomes. To increase health equity. To reduce health disparities.
- We describe all of our offices on Career Opportunities.
- Focusing on employees' experience.
The Division of Administrative Operations is now the Division of Workforce Management. Promoting excellence in operations.
Stay up-to-date with BPHC REACH
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Attend Today with Macrae: Health Center Updates sessions
- Review the Technical Assistance calendar for upcoming dates.
- Watch recent recordings on COVID-19 Information for Health Centers and Partners
- Primary Health Care Digest archive
- Key Staff for BPHC