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Clinical Quality Health Choice Network

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

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

Tackling the Opioid Crisis Preventing & 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 working education, promising practices, and other innovative ideas
with our centers’ clinical leadership to tailor programs for health centers as they continue to evolve more effective
focused on ensuring access to treatment protocols and approaches to diabetic care. To assist our member centers
proper training of care team members not only to ﬁght with these efforts HCN has joined Project ECHO to
this epidemic, but to ensure prevention strategies are empower primary care providers (PCPs) managing adult
deployed as well. Through our Opioid Taskforce, health and pediatric patients living with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) or
centers share promising practices and review clinical case insulin-dependent Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) who lack access to
studies to support their efforts to advance Medication routine specialty care in underserved communities.
Assisted Treatment (MAT) Services.

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