Primary Care Development Corporation

Programs: Capital investment: supporting primary care expansion. Pcdc provides the capital and expertise to build, renovate, and expand community-based health facilities so that care is offered in settings that promote dignity and efficiency. Certified as a community development financial institution (cdfi) by the united states treasury, pcdc is a key source of capital for the primary care sector and to date has financed over 130 primary care projects valued at more than $875 million. This investment has created the capacity to provide nearly 3. 265 million medical visits annually to meet the primary care needs of more than 995,000 patients throughout the united states. Pcdc's investment has transformed 1. 625 million square feet of space into fully functioning primary care practices and created or preserved over 8,550 jobs in low-income communities. Pcdc has experienced no loan losses in its portfolio to date, and has received an aaa+2 performance rating from the cdfi assessment and rating system (cars). Highlights of recent capital investment accomplishments include: brightpoint health. Pcdc provided $2. 5 million in financing to enable brightpoint health to open a 16,000-square-foot fqhc in the bronx, making brightpoint among the first in the community to offer integrated primary care, behavioral health, and health home services for adults and children. Family health centers of san diego. Pcdc provided $1. 0 million in debt financing and $8. 5 million in nmtc allocation to support family health centers of san diego's construction of a new, comprehensive care center in the city of el cajon. The newly constructed facility will use 30 exam rooms to provide integrated services, including family medicine and pediatrics, ob-gyn, hiv and std care, dental services, behavioral health, and optometry. Lakeshore community health care. Pcdc completed a third round of funding to lakeshore community health care, consisting of $4. 1 million in debt financing and a $6. 5 million nmtc allocation to finance the consolidate lakeshore's existing clinics into a much larger building. The project will enable lakeshore to substantially expand the care available to the area's medically underserved residents, and employ over 100 staff by 2020. Lowell community health center. Pcdc provided $4. 3 million in debt financing and a $13 million nmtc allocation to help lowell community health center begin a $27 million expansion that will renovate 65,000 square feet of space nearly doubling the health center's capacity to provide urgently-needed primary health care to lowell's underserved residents. Shasta community health center. Pcdc provided $4. 0 million in financing and an $8 million nmtc allocation to build a 16,600-square-foot anderson family health and dental center. When completed in fall 2018, it will more than double the size of the center's existing location in anderson, north of sacramento.

performance improvement: strengthening service delivery. Pcdc's performance improvement practice has provided consulting, training, and coaching services to more than 1,000 primary care organizations across the country - helping these practices adopt a model of care that maximizes patient access, meaningful use of health it, care coordination, patient experience, and emergency planning. Our staff team brings extensive expertise and a broad and powerful knowledge base to the provision of capacity-building assistance; most hold graduate degrees and average between 10 to 15 years of experience working directly with high-risk, safety net populations. This "real world experience" enables pcdc to better understand the needs of our clients and guides the creation and implementation of effective coaching and quality improvement tools. Highlights of recent performance improvement accomplishments include: supporting team-based chronic care management. Pcdc released a report that provides recommendations to support better health care for high-risk, high-need individuals. The report, titled "delivering team-based chronic care management: overcoming the barriers," is intended for use by all health care providers and staff involved in chronic care management, and includes sample tools and workflows created during the project as well as case studies compiled by the center for health care strategies. Expanding patient-centered medical homes. There is mounting evidence that patient-centered medical homes (pcmhs) help to improve patient health and reduce overall costs. To date, pcdc has helped 450 practices become certified pcmhs. Integrating hiv prevention into preventive care. Pcdc continues to partner with the u. S. Centers for disease control and prevention to provide technical assistance and create resources to help primary care providers across the nation integrate scientifically-proven and cost-effective hiv prevention into ongoing medical home activities.

policy and advocacy: leading primary care initiatives. Primary care is not only the centerpiece of meaningful health care reform, but also contributes greatly to economic development, better health, and across-the-board health care savings. Pcdc's policy and advocacy agenda includes working with policymakers and stakeholders to promote the patient-centered medical home model; expand access to capital for primary care expansion; strengthen the role of primary care in health system and health payment reform; and strengthen the role of primary care in sustaining "healthy communities. "pcdc ceo louise cohen appointed to the community services board (csb): on november 22, 2016, new york city mayor bill de blasio's office announced that pcdc ceo louise cohen was one of 15 appointees to the community services board (csb). The csb is responsible for advising the department of health and mental hygiene on the city's mental health and substance use treatment services. Cohen brings to the board more than 25 years of experience in primary care, public health, program operations, and community health needs assessment. Creating a primary care road map for dsrip (september 2016): in an op-ed, ceo louise cohen wrote about new york state's medicaid delivery system reform incentive payment program (dsrip), which aims to reduce avoidable health care costs by creating new integrated provider systems (mostly headed by hospitals) to collaborate on system transformation, clinical quality, and population health improvement. "but with dsrip's enormous challenge," she wrote, "it's possible to lose focus on what "transformation" means at its core: a robust, accessible, person-centered, high-quality, and cost-effective state-wide primary care system. "

pcdc's primary care innovation circle is a salon series that brings together top leaders from across the health care and community development industries. The series engages providers, policymakers, and investors in discussions around key issues, challenges, and opportunities that are shaping the future of the health care system. Highlights of recent innovation circles include: primary care under the new administration (april 2017). This event, in response to uncertainty created by a new president, and moderated by ceo louise cohen, featured a panel of health policy experts led by deborah bachrach, jd, of manatt health. Discussion focused on the political and operational realities of new reforms, as well as views on how primary care could achieve better outcomes and healthier patients.