HRSA Community Health Center Quality Recognition 2022

In September 2022, Zufall received three Community Health Center Quality Recognition (CHQR) Badges from HRSA. These badges recognize health centers that have made notable quality improvement achievements in the areas of access, quality, health equity, and health information technology. The three badges are:

• The Health Center Quality Leader award, which indicates that Zufall Health’s overall clinical quality measure (CQM) performance ranks in the top 10% nationwide
• The Advancing HIT for Quality award, which recognizes health centers that meet all criteria to optimize HIT services. Health centers must meet the following five criteria:
  • Adopted an electronic health record (EHR) system
  • Offers telehealth services
  • Exchanges clinical information electronically with key providers health care settings
  • Engages patients through health IT
  • Collects data on patient social risk factors
• The Addressing Social Risk Factors badge, which recognizes health centers that are screening for social risk factors impacting patient health and are increasing access to enabling services. Health centers must meet the following two criteria:
  • Collect data on patient social risk factors
  • Increase the proportion of patients receiving enabling services between consecutive UDS reporting years