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Awards and Recognitions for 2024

The Health Center Quality Leaders Gold Badge, which recognizes the top 10% of FQHCs that achieve the best overall clinical quality measure performance. With over 1,400 Federally Qualified Health Centers nationwide achieving Gold is a tremendous achievement. Achieving it in consecutive years demonstrates that BCHC, founded in 2012, is doing an exceptional job of meeting the healthcare needs of the community.

The Advancing Health Information Technology (HIT) for Quality Badge, which recognizes FQHCs that meet all criteria to optimize HIT services that advance telehealth, patient engagement, interoperability, and the collection of social determinants of health to increase the access to care and advance the quality of care.

 

The Access Enhancer Badge: Recognizes FQHCs that earn a Health Center Quality badge and increase by at least 5% in back-to-back reporting years either total patients served or patients receiving mental health, substance use disorder, vision, dental, or enabling services.

 

 

The Addressing Social Risk Factors Badge: Recognizes health centers that collect data on patient social risk factors and increase the percentage of patients who received enabling services between the last two UDS reporting years.

 

 

The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Badge, which recognizes all three BCHC locations as meeting standards to be designated a PCMH. The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model is an approach to delivering high-quality, cost-effective primary care. Using a patient-centered, culturally appropriate, and team-based approach, the PCMH model coordinates patient care across the health system.