GRANTS AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

TRANSFORMING CLINICAL PRACTICE INITIATIVE

AACHC supported CMS's TCPI-PTN Grantee, "Practice Innovation Institute," and CVN’s Healthy Communities Collaborative Network.

ACTIVITIES

• Live group trainings and webinars • Health center peer group on-site meetings and regular teleconferences • Annual Invaluable Medical & Dental Assistants and

Community Health Workers recognition event

AHCCCS 2019

AACHC assisted health centers with the agency’s contracted health plans to ensure health centers’ concerns were addressed, including the transition to AHCCCS Complete Care (effective October 1, 2019), the Annual Reconciliation process, and timely payment for billable FQHC services. AACHC has ongoing meetings that bring together health center representatives with MCOs experiencing technical claims adjudication issues.

OPPORTUNITIES

In 2019, an Azara risk stratification module was implemented based on criteria developed by participating health centers. Late 2019, the HIE began sending facility admit/transfer/discharge alerts to Azara for upload into DRVS. The Transition of Care module and daily patient planning reports provide these alerts to clinicians to better manage patient care.

Looking forward to 2020, AACHC will leverage these tools to measure and report clinical/quality and financial value of primary care delivered through Arizona’s health centers.

Using technology-driven population health management and analytics, AACHC will support health center clinical transformation for improved integrated primary care. The use of DRVS will be expanded with the implementation of enrollment and claims data modules.

GRANTS AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

RURAL HEALTH

• Rural Health Opioid Program (previously funded) • Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating

Violence and Stalking Program (previously funded) • Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Implementation - New funding for a multi-year cooperative agreement aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality of substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD), in rural communities at the highest risk for SUD. This funding will help to strengthen and expand SUD/OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery service delivery in highrisk rural communities. AACHC will be working in partnership with Sonoran Prevention Works and existing local partnerships to launch communitybased initiatives in the rural designation areas of Mohave County, Graham County, and Gila

County, which are amongst the most impacted rural counties in Arizona.

ORAL HEALTH

• Oral Health Integration within the Maternal and Child Health Safety Net - New funding for a multi-year cooperative agreement whereby

AACHC is one of four coordination sites for the

Western region of the country to improve access to and delivery of comprehensive, quality oral health care for children, 0–17 years of age, by testing and establishing models of care. • Office of Oral Health Healthy Smiles Healthy

Bodies Survey - Funding to conduct a survey of preschool and third grade children in Arizona using a standardized cross-sectional, openmouth screening developed by the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors and conducted by trained dental staff. • Oral Health 2020 State Coalition (previously funded) • National Oral Health Innovation and Integration

Network (NOHIIN) (previously funded) • Serves as State Representative for Arizona (previously funded)

GRANTS AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - CONTINUED

OUTREACH AND ENROLLMENT

• Cooperative Agreement to Support Navigators in Federally-facilitated and State Partnership

Marketplaces (previously funded) • Cooperative Agreement for Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment (Healthy

Kids) - New multi-year funding to reduce the number of children who are eligible for, but not enrolled in, Medicaid and the Children’s Health

Insurance Program (CHIP), and to improve retention of eligible children who are enrolled in the programs. • First Things First, Service Coordination - In partnership with Children’s Action Alliance as the fiscal agent, participation in efforts to increase outreach for and enrollment into KidsCare. • Promotores HOPE Network (previously funded) • Support from different Managed Care

Organizations (MCOs) to assist AACHC in answering the centralized consumer, toll-free phone number, “Cover Arizona” for consumers to get their questions answered and make appointments to see Application Assisters statewide. This contract will include collaborating with AACHC in recruiting and developing a training system for CHWs to answer the toll-free line.

PRACTICE TRANSFORMATION

• PI (Practice Innovation) Institute (previously funded) • State Learning and Action Collaborative -

AACHC and Collaborative Ventures Network participation in a collaborative focused on advancing value based payment and care with four goals: building internal capacity of state associations, building state association capacity in policy and advocacy, fostering collaboration between primary care and behavioral health, and building capacity of state associations to provide technical assistance and training to their members. • Project Elevate - Participation in a Learning

System Pilot Project with NACHC that allows health centers to assess their level of progress in 15 key “change areas” identified in NACHC’s Value

Transformation Framework and access targeted resources for improvement.

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

• The IPV Provider Network: Engaging the Health

Care Provider Response to Interpersonal Violence

Against Women (previously funded) • PRAPARE Academy (previously funded)

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

• Quality Improvement Projects - Received new funding through the Office of Chronic Disease to focus on hypertension and hyperlipidemia through process improvement with health centers in the state. • Title X Reproductive Health - Funding to plan and implement the Arizona Women’s Health

Conference to bring together individuals from across the state to engage, network, and learn from local and national experts on emerging or ongoing issues in women’s health. • COMMIT/MEND (Childhood Obesity management with MEND Implementation

Teams/Mind, Exercise, Nutrition... Do It!) (previously funded) • Substance-Abuse Infrastructure in FQHCs - New funding for a multi-year contract to support and improve the substance-abuse infrastructure for

FQHCs and Look Alikes in Maricopa County by identifying training needs and gaps related to substance abuse and especially OUD, design and administer a training program for the FQHCs based on the results of the needs assessment, and identify at least one health center per year to create a systems change related to OUD.

WORKFORCE

• Workforce Development - Continued funding to support statewide recruitment and retention strategies and rotation placement of National

Health Service Corps Scholars. • Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program -

New funding for a multi-year contract to support the Central Arizona Area Health Education

Center (CAAHEC) that serves Maricopa County, the greater Valley, and portions of Pinal County and Yavapai County for health workforce development. The mission of the Arizona AHEC is to improve access to quality healthcare, particularly primary and public health, by improving the supply, diversity, and distribution of healthcare professionals through academiccommunity partnerships. • AZ-HOPE Program - New funding for a multi-year contract to coordinate programming to support disadvantaged and underserved students into entering higher education with a focus on health professions that includes a Health Professions

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