Greater Family Health’s 2019 outcomes on the Bureau of Primary Health Care Clinical Indicators have been recognized as among the best of all Federally Qualified Health Centers in the United States and Illinois – for the 7th year in a row!
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recognized Greater Family Health with 7 National Awards on August 25, 2020:
- National Quality Leader
- Health Center Quality Leader – Gold
- Clinical Quality Improver
- Access Enhancer
- Health Disparities Reducer
- Advancing Health Information Technology for Quality
- Patient Centered Medical Home
Greater Family Health received all but 1 possible National Award, all in recognition of Greater Family Health’s excellence in the care provided to its over 53,500 patients.
The organization received the most Awards of any of the 45 awardees in Illinois, as well as the largest resultant monetary award, acknowledging Greater Family Health as the top performing Federally Qualified Health Center in Illinois!
Greater Family Health’s Hypertension/Heart Health outcome ranked in the top 2% nationally, resulting in the National Quality Leader Award. This is the 3rd time Greater Family Health has been recognized as a National Quality Leader, with the first being in 2016.
Greater Family Health’s clinical outcomes ranked in the top 10% of Country’s 1,385 reporting Federally Qualified Health Centers, resulting in the receipt of the Health Center Quality Lead-Gold Award. Greater Family Health has received the National Health Center Quality Leader for 7 consecutive years, the National Clinical Quality Improver Award in 6 of the past 7 years, and the Advancing HIT for Quality Award every year it has been offered.
Greater Family Health is also a 2017 Million Hearts Hypertension Control Champion, a 5-year honor, awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Coupled with operational and financial comparison reports issued on August 14, 2020, the Awards acknowledge that Greater Family Health’s outcomes are far better than other Health Centers’, both in the State and Nationally, on an array of clinical and financial indicator outcomes.
“There’s no doubt that the definition of success is not just achieving the goal, but maintaining that level of excellence over a long period of time. Here’s to our many practitioners and professionals who make such a multitude of excellent outcomes continue to happen” said Bob Tanner, President/CEO of Greater Family Health. ‘Really – an amazing accomplishment by all our staff – a 7th consecutive year that Greater Family Health has received such prestigious recognitions from HHS/HRSA!” said Tanner.
The released comparison data indicate that Greater Family Health also has the 3rd lowest cost per patient of the 45 FQHCs in Illinois. Further:
- Greater Family Health’s Total Cost per Total patient is 42% less than the State average and 53% less than the National average
- Greater Family Health’s Medical Cost per Medical Patient is 30% less than the State average and 42% less than the National Average
- Greater Family Health’s Dental Cost per Dental Patient is 23% less than the State average and 47% less than the National Average
“Greater Family Health continues to provide real value. I’ll say it again….Whether you’re a patient, a payer or a taxpayer, with our costs so low and our quality amongst the country’s best, one can easily see that Greater Family Health is not only a trusted source of quality care, but a real value” continued Tanner.
The Press Release articulating the Awards offered by HHS/HRSA is at: https://bphc.hrsa.gov/programopportunities/fundingopportunities/qualityimprovement/index.html
Awards for the Federally Qualified Health Centers in Illinois are available at: https://bphc.hrsa.gov/programopportunities/fundingopportunities/qualityimprovement/states/IL.html
Data for every Federally Qualified Health Center is available at:
https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/data-reporting/program-data
Greater Family Health is the area’s premier Federally Qualified Health Center, providing the full range of quality, affordably priced, fully integrated primary care services to over 53,000 area residents by over 175,000 medical, behavioral health and dental appointments annually. Operating 9 Community Health Centers in 5 northeastern Illinois counties, the organization is accredited by The Joint Commission, Primary Care Medical Home certified, repeatedly nationally recognized for both its health outcomes and cost efficiency, and provides care regardless of the patient’s ability to pay.
