Clinical Quality Improvement

Health Center Program Quality Improvement initiatives support your efforts toward:

• Better care for patients
• Healthy communities
• Lower health care costs

These initiatives help you develop and carry out ongoing quality improvement through an array of:

• Policies and programs
• Funding
• Training and technical assistance
• Data and information sharing
• Partnerships and collaborations 

National quality recognition

The HRSA Accreditation and Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Initiative supports recognition for meeting national quality standards. 

We contract with these accreditation and recognition organizations to support, evaluate, and recognize participating health centers for meeting standards for ambulatory health care accreditation, Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition, or both:

• The Joint Commission (TJC): Ambulatory health care accreditation and PCMH recognition
• The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC): Ambulatory health care accreditation and PCMH recognition
• The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA): PCMH recognition