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Clinical Quality

Services

Health Choice Network, Inc. (HCN) has a long-standing history of working with Federally
Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to optimize technology, develop leading practices and
facilitate collaboration amongst our health centers and community partners to improve our
community's quality of care. HCN members are actively engaged in quality improvement
activities through Practice Transformation, funded quality improvement projects, and clinical
engagement strategies focused on enhancing knowledge, ensuring optimization of tools,
and effectively using data and shared best practices to improve patient outcomes.

CLINICAL FOCUS

IMPROVING
ENDING THE HIV EPIDEMIC CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

In alignment with our clinical priority focus areas, HCN has HCN has partnered with the National Association of
partnered with Gilead Science’s Frontlines Of Community Health Centers (NACHC) to improve the
Communities in the United States (FOCUS) program, to cardiovascular health of our centers' patients. Through
move the needle on local & national goals to End the HIV the Million Hearts initiative, our centers have access to
Epidemic by 2030. Through our partnership, HCN is the latest clinical recommendations, tools, and resources
working with local departments of health and community to focus efforts on how to reduce the number of patients
health centers across the network to increase HIV testing who have heart attacks and strokes.
and build strong HIV programming to support the Four
pillars of Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America.

PREVENTING AND
TACKLING THE OPIOID CRISIS MANAGING DIABETES

Integrating primary care and behavioral health is more HCN is committed to working with our centers to bring
important now than ever in identifying and treating forth relevant and timely resources, including, training,
patients afflicted by an opioid use disorder. HCN is education, promising practices, and other innovative ideas
working with our centers’ clinical leadership to tailor for health centers as they continue to evolve more
programs focused on ensuring access to treatment effective approaches to diabetic care. To assist our
protocols and proper training of care team members member centers with these efforts HCN has joined Project
not only to fight this epidemic, but to ensure prevention ECHO to empower primary care providers (PCPs)
strategies are deployed as well. Through our Opioid managing adult and pediatric patients living with Type 1
Taskforce, health centers share promising practices and Diabetes (T1D) or insulin-dependent Type 2 Diabetes (T2D)
review clinical case studies to support their efforts to who lack access to routine specialty care in underserved
advance Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Services. communities.

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