Maine Primary Care Association

Pca cooperative agreement - training and technical assistance to support chcs in providing comprehensive, high quality Primary health Care and improving the health of individuals and communities with funding provided by the health resources and services administration (hrsa).

Rural public health workforce training network programs purpose is to expand public health capacity by supporting health Care job development, training, and placement in rural communities. Maine Primary Care Association will convene a consortia of maines federally qualified health centers (fqhcs) in addition to statewide workforce stakeholders and training partners to establish and work towards comprehensive recruitment and retention strategies to enhance or expand track 1-community health support, focusing on community health workers (chws), medical assistants (mas), and dental assistants (das) in rural Maine.

Health center controlled network - support health centers in achieving meaningful use of electronic health records, adopting technology-enabled quality improvement strategies, and engaging in health information exchange to strengthen the quality of Care and improve patient health outcomes.

Maine Primary Care Association epresents the collective voices of maines 20 community health centers, which provide high quality, Primary and preventive medical, behavioral health and dental services for 1 in 6 mainers. From grants like the rural health network development grant or our idd partnerships that support the patient safety organizations (psos) are organizations that conduct activities to improve the safety and quality of patient Care. Maine Primary Care ssociation also has smaller grants that support our advocacy work with grants from Maine health access foundation (mehaf) and other grants that support advocacy and coalition building on behalf of our members.