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Committed to their community, West County Health Centers cover a wide geographic area spanning West Sonoma County, from Sebastopol to Guerneville. The population they serve is amongst the area’s most vulnerable, and their participation with PHMI is empowering them to prioritize ...

The Population Health Management Initiative (PHMI) is committed to improving quality of care and equitable health outcomes for Community Health Centers (CHCs) through initiatives such as Equity and Practice Transformation (EPT). EPT is a California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) initiative to fund practice transformation models based off ...

The Population Health Management Initiative (PHMI) is currently developing a technology solution – the PHMI Platform – that enables Community Health Centers (CHCs) to strengthen their ability to provide equitable health care services, as well as drive improvements to produce equitable health outcomes. All ...

Join this 90-minute webinar that reviews the CHC approach on how to employ CHWs and operationalize CHW services at their sites, understand the policies in place and take-home strategies that will help the workforce grow sustainably.

For the past several months, the PHMI Technology Team has been conducting a proof-of-concept (POC) to validate the ability of a PHMI Platform candidate (powered by Innovaccer) to provide population health IT capabilities to meet PHMI Program and CHC needs. Read an update on the completed POC and what’s ahead.

PHMI’s new Building the Foundation Implementation Guide Series is now live. These guides serve as an organized quality improvement strategy, with the goal of supporting substantive clinical, operational, technological, and cultural changes.

Dr. Elaine Soriano, Regional Medical Director, and her team describe their first PHMI project: fulfilling a dream to increase their children’s immunization rates while optimizing team-based care and taking care of the people who take care of their patients.

Alexia Eslan, Project Director for Practice Transformation Partners, describes the ways her team will come alongside the PHMI team and participating community health centers (CHCs) to advance the strong population health management work.

The Population Health Management Capabilities Assessment Tool (PhmCAT) was administered to 32 community health centers (CHCs), with the goal of helping them identify their current population health management capabilities and areas of growth.