Health Quality Partners

See schedule othe behavioral Health and primary care integration project enrolled 607 people in fy23. Program components include, but are not limited to, assessment, therapy, medication management, peer support services, and the referral of individuals across systems of care, when indicated. The program also hosted the 13th annual integration summit which was held virtually over part of three days in november of 2022. It was attended by leadership and clinicians from the primary care, mental Health and the substance use disorder treatment systems of care and was rated excellent or good by 99% of those attendees.

See schedule othe socal optimization of sbirt (sos) project, which began in november 2018 and runs for five years, uniformly optimizes and standardizes screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (sbirt) services at fqhcs in san diego, riverside, and imperial counties to prevent and reduce alcohol and other substance misuse among adolescents (ages 12-17) and adults (ages 18+) in primary care and Community Health settings. This project is funded by the substance abuse and mental Health services administration. To date over 69,600 have been pre-screened for misuse/abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances through this project. Over the five-year grant period, the sos project will provide sbirt services to an estimated 94,000 patients.

See schedule oin fy 22-23, ohi providers screened the oral Health needs of 9,405 children and performed dental exams for 8,564 children. A total of 7,549 children received treatment for identified oral Health needs, including those considered to be at high-risk for dental disease. Additionally, oral Health education was provided in a clinic, Community, or virtual setting to a total of 2,329 pregnant women and parents of children ages zero through five.

Health center-controlled Network funding from hrsa was used to support Health centers in leveraging Health information technology (it) and data to deliver high-quality, culturally competent, equitable, and comprehensive primary Health care, with a specific focus on improvements in: clinical Quality, patient-centered care, and provider and staff well-being.

Hqp served as a subcontractor to ucsd moores cancer center on two research studies - one testing a centralized model for colorectal cancer screening and the other to determine what methods work best for outreaching to the Health center population and other Community members for covid-19 testing.

Hqp has many other programs including administering funds so Health centers can hire navigators to enroll patients in medicaid and covered California (california's Health benefit exchange) funded by cms and covered California. The cms-funded connecting kids to coverage program achieved 1,996 new child medi-cal enrollments, which is 145% of hqp's collective goal of 1,360 verified new child enrollments. Enrollment staff assisted with 3,814 combined new child and renewal applications during the 2022-23 grant year.