NC Health Center Development Resources

Health Center Program Requirements

•  Health Center Program Compliance Manual (August 2018): replaces most PINs/PALs.
• Health Professional Shortage Area Search
• Medically Underserved Area/Medically Underserved Population (MUA/MUP)
• Clinical and Financial Program Measures
• Health Center Data Requirements
• Progressive Action Conditions Library

Other Bureau of Primary Health Care Resources (BPHC)

• Home Page of BPHC
• What is a Health Center?How to Become a Health Center
• Funding to Serve Special Populations
• Resources for Health Center Development: Links to several websites with resources on a broad range of topics recommended by HRSA.
• Example of New Access Point (NAP) funding opportunity

National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Resources

• Home page of NACHC
• Search NACHC Publications
• “So You Want to Start a Health Center…?: A Practical Guide for Starting a Federally Qualified Health Center”, 2015
• “Successful Practices in Community Development for Community Health Centers”, 2012

Collaborative Models

• The Legal Considerations of Establishing A Successful Health Center & Hospital Collaborative Model (2009 powerpoint presentation by Feldesman, Tucker, Leifer, and Fiddell)
• “A Manual on Effective Collaboration Between Critical Access Hospitals and Federally Qualified Health Centers” (HRSA, 2010)
• “Comparison of the Rural Health Clinic and Federally Qualified Health Center Programs” (HRSA, 2006)
• “Public Centers: A Discussion Monograph” (NACHC, 2014)

Needs Assessment Resources

• UDS Mapper: The UDS Mapper is designed to help inform users about the current geographic extent of U.S. federal (Section 330) Health Center Program (HCP) grantees and look-alikes. Webinars and tutorials are available for training on its use.
• The North Carolina Community Health Information Portal (NC-HIP) is a web-based application designed to allow researchers, public health professionals, hospital executives and other policymakers to generate new insights from existing public and private databases. NC-HIP allows users to geo-map their own health data alongside major public health data sets. With minimal training, users can upload their own Excel spreadsheets, juxtapose them with public health databases and transform the combined data into powerful, actionable visuals. Quick Start Guide available.
• The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research: The Sheps Center stores and manages various data resources for use in health services research.
• NC County Community Health Assessments.
• The North Carolina Health Data Explorer: The Health Data Explorer provides access to health data for North Carolina counties in an interactive, user-friendly atlas of maps, tables, and charts. It allows users to select, visualize, explore and download data on major disease mortality, disparities between groups, social and economic factors, and health behaviors. Users can also print maps and export image files from the Explorer.
• Healthy North Carolina: 2020: The Healthy North Carolina 2020 health objectives address all aspects of health with the aim of improving the health status of every North Carolinian.
• 2014 Report by the NC Task Force on Rural Health: Office of Rural Health and Community Care (ORHCC) within the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS), and the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (the Trust) convened a Task Force on Rural Health. The overall goal of the Task Force on Rural Health was to develop a North Carolina Rural Health Action Plan that included workable strategies to improve rural health outcomes that were actionable over the next three to five years.
• Community Commons: Enrich your community work with maps and data reports that can be shared and saved.
• HealthLandscape.org: Create custom maps and tables of the health status in individual communities by showing populations at risk, health outcomes, and the distribution of health interventions.
• Hotspotting Toolkit Available: Hotspotting is a data-driven process for the timely identification of extreme patterns in a defined region of the healthcare system. Hot spotting has been used to show where diseases and hospital admissions cluster in communities and can be used to show evidence of need for funding, as well as guide targeted intervention and follow-up.
• The Rural Assistance Center website is full of funding tips, maps, data, and grant writing manuals, as well as current funding opportunities.
• Mapping the Measure of America: State and county-level maps showing key health indicators such as life expectancy, diabetes, and more. Also covers indicators that impact health, like educational attainment and income. Select a county by clicking on the map for a brief profile.
• Healthy NC Improvement App (IMAPP): The Center for Public Health Quality and the Center for Healthy North Carolina are pleased to announce the launch of the Healthy NC Improvement App (IMAPP), a comprehensive, user-friendly resource to help community partnerships select and implement evidence-based interventions (EBIs) to improve population health.
• HRSA Area Health Resources Files (AHRF): The Area Health Resources Files are a no-cost, comprehensive source of healthcare data. Information on national, state and county-specific health and health-related resources includes annual data on health care professions, health care facilities, hospitals and population health data.

New Start Resources

BPHC Health Center Program Site Visit Guide (April 2019)

BPHC Samples and Templates Resource Center

“FUNDED! Now What? Quick Reference Guide” (NACHC, 2015)

Incubator Project Outcomes