A Project of Community Partners

Preamble

Community health centers are the heart of primary healthcare service for the underinsured and uninsured. However, these safety net providers are often required to manage the multiple needs of their patients without ready access to information, or the capacity to apply it, to support and enhance their delivery of high quality care. They fall behind hospitals and private healthcare providers in implementing and using health information technologies such as chronic disease management systems and electronic health records to advance quality improvement initiatives.

Recognizing this gap and the challenges facing community health centers, four healthcare funding sponsors collaborated to envision and create the Building Clinic Capacity for Quality (BCCQ) Program – a program focused on creating learning opportunities and collaborations between clinics to enhance their delivery of high quality healthcare.

Mission

To improve the quality of healthcare provided to Southern Californians by enhancing the capacity of community clinics to engage and sustain technology-enabled quality improvement initiatives.

Goals

Increase Quality Improvement Capacity

Increase the capacity of Southern California community clinics to apply quality improvement strategies and engage in quality improvement initiatives.

Advance Implementation of Health Information Technology

Advance Southern Californian community clinics’ implementation of health information technologies that support the delivery of high quality healthcare.