Health Net Awards $4.2 Million to Drive Health Workforce Development and Improve Quality of Health Data Collection
December 05 2017 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
22 recipients are in Northern California, the
Central Valley and Southern California
Grants are core components of company’s efforts
to transform the health of the community, one person at a time
Health Net, Inc. (“Health Net”), one of California’s largest
health plans, is awarding a combined $4.2 million to 22 healthcare
organizations across the state to help increase health workforce
development and improve the accuracy of encounter data collection.
The grants will expand access to health care and enhance health
outcomes in medically underserved communities.
These grants are supported by Health Net’s Community and
Infrastructure Investment Program, created as a result of the
Undertakings agreed to by Health Net and the California Department
of Managed Health Care as a condition of the department’s approval
in 2016 of the merger between Centene Corporation and Health Net,
Inc.
“There is a shortage of primary care physicians and supporting
care teams statewide,” said Steve Sell, president of Health Net,
Inc. “By investing in healthcare workforce development, we can
assist underserved communities in receiving appropriate care and
achieve our goals of helping Californians be well and stay
well.”
The healthcare organizations receiving the Health Workforce
Development grants demonstrate the importance of a multifaceted
approach in recruiting, training and retaining healthcare
professionals. Investments in these organizations, through Health
Net’s Community & Infrastructure Investment Program, are
intended to improve access to, and quality of, healthcare
statewide.
The healthcare providers receiving the Encounter Data
Improvement grants will be able to improve the completeness and
accuracy of data collection and reporting for managed-care
patients.
“Improved encounter data collection will lead to better analyses
and identification of trends in patient care,” said Carol Kim, vice
president of Community Investments & Public Affairs for Health
Net. “Accuracy in encounter data is key to measuring illness
prevalence rates, assessing quality of care, and identifying needed
improvements within healthcare systems.”
Health Workforce Development Grant Recipients
Northern California
- Peach Tree Health: $150,000 to support
new hires through a redesigned staff onboarding and evaluation
program and establish training for incumbent staff.
- Sacramento Native American Health
Center: $145,000 to train management staff, fund next level of
education or training and develop a strategic human resources
plan.
- WellSpace Health: $150,000 to develop a
training curriculum for medical assistants to become health
educators or coaches on chronic disease management.
Central Valley
- Camarena Health: $150,000 to train
medical assistants to provide health coaching and enable providers
to track the effectiveness and quality outcomes of health
coaching.
- Family Healthcare Network: $100,000 to
train providers to increase competency in core areas of care, and
train nurse navigators on chronic care management, home-care
planning and care-management services.
- Golden Valley Health Centers: $150,000
to recruit additional primary care physicians and train
post-graduate nurse practitioners and physician assistants
- Valley Health Team: $150,000 to hire
additional primary care physicians and train more than 30 medical
assistants as health coaches.
Southern California
- Comprehensive Community Health Centers:
$122,000 to train several hundred staff members to leverage
management tools, train medical assistants to be medical
interpreters and provide cultural competency training to
staff.
- Family Care Specialists Medical
Corporation: $150,000 to train physicians as transformation coaches
in addition to training entry-level health workers to become
advanced medical assistants.
- The Children’s Clinic: $150,000 to
develop a recruitment and retention plan, a career ladder to
increase retention rates and assist medical assistants in using
their full licensure training.
- Community Health Association Inland
Southern Region: $133,000 to establish a medical assistant training
program, provide preceptor training at six clinics and recruit and
train new medical assistants.
Encounter Data Improvement Grant Recipients
Statewide
- Integrated Healthcare Association:
$136,000 to conduct an encounter data market research study of
frontline provider groups, individual practices, and managed
services organizations to identify opportunities for data
collection and submission improvements in the industry.
Central Valley
- Adventist Health Plan: $250,000 to
develop and formalize an electronic medical-record training
curriculum to improve encounter volume.
- Independence Medical Group: $250,000 to
improve encounter data submission timeliness to health plans by
developing efficient processes and training, and increase provider
capacity for electronic data submission.
Southern California
- Allied Pacific of California: $250,000
to improve encounter data capture between urgent care and primary
care providers by using an enhanced web portal to coordinate data
collection.
- Angeles IPA: $250,000 to increase
current encounter data volume and improve encounter data accuracy
and timeliness of encounter submissions.
- Community Family
Care: $250,000 to improve overall encounter data processes
by transitioning providers from paper-based to electronic encounter
data submissions, streamlining billing practices and investing in
hardware, technical assistance and staff training.
- Exceptional Care
Medical Group: $250,000 to improve overall encounter data
processes by transitioning providers from paper-based to electronic
encounter data submissions, streamlining billing practices and
investing in hardware, technical assistance and staff
training.
- MSO, Inc. of Southern California:
$250,000 to acquire and implement electronic health-record
equipment and provide electronic medical-record training to improve
data encounter volume for two of its affiliated provider groups,
Karing Physicians Medical Group and San Judas Medical Group.
- Omnicare Medical
Group: $250,000 to improve overall encounter data processes
by transitioning providers from paper-based to electronic encounter
data submissions and investing in hardware, technical assistance
and staff training.
- Rady Children’s
Health Network: $250,000 to improve overall encounter data
processes by transitioning providers from paper-based to electronic
encounter data submissions, improving error rate and investing in
hardware, technical assistance and staff training.
- Vantage:
$250,000 to conduct system review, provide technical assistance,
training, tools and technology to improve encounter data submission
rates.
About Health Net
Health Net, a wholly owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation
(NYSE: CNC), provides and administers health benefits through
group, individual, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription
drug benefit commonly referred to as “Part D”), Medicaid and dual
eligible programs. Health Net also offers access to behavioral
health, substance abuse and employee assistance programs, and
managed health care products related to prescription drugs. For
more information on Health Net, please visit the company’s website
at www.healthnet.com.
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