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We’ve done it again! Kintegra has received the following HRSA Community Health Center Quality Recognition (CHCQR) awards for Program Year 2023.

The images shown above represent the HRSA Quality Badges awarded in 2024 for the 2023 UDS reporting period.

Below are definitions and criteria for the awards.

National Quality Leader: Behavioral Health

To achieve this award, the Health Center must meet or achieve the following targets:

Depression remission at 12 months 18.2% (top quintile of 2023 UDS Data)

Depression screening and follow-up plan 80.5% (top quintile of 2023 UDS Data)

Proportion of all patients receiving screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) At least 5%

Relative percent increase in patients receiving medication-assisted treatment (MAT) between consecutive UDS reporting years ,At least 10%

Health Center Quality Leader

To earn HCQL badges, health centers must have the best overall CQM performance based on average 2023 Adjusted Quartile Rankings (AQR). HRSA awards HCQL badges to health centers with AQR averages in the top three tiers (top 30%).

Kintegra earned the Bronze award, meaning we were in the top 30% of health centers nationwide for our clinical quality metrics.

Access Enhancer

Health centers must:

- Achieve at least one of these:
  - Earn at least one HCQL or NQL badge.
  - Improve by at least 15% in one or more CQMs in back-to-back reporting years.
- Increase by at least 5% in back-to-back reporting years.
  - Total patients.
  - Patients receiving mental health, substance use disorder, vision, dental, or enabling services.

How did health centers qualify?

We used data from the last two UDS reporting periods (Table 5: Staffing and Utilization (PDF – 271 KB)).

Advancing Health Information Technology (HIT) for Quality:

Health centers that meet all the following criteria:

1. - Adopted an electronic health record (EHR) system.
  - Offered telehealth services.
  - Exchanged clinical information online with key providers’ health care settings.
  - Engaged patients through health IT.
  - Collected data on patient social risk factors.

How did health centers qualify?

HRSA used UDS data from the latest reporting year (Appendix D: Health Center Information Technology Capabilities and Appendix E: Other Data Elements (PDF – 171 KB).)

Addressing Social Risk Factors to Health

To earn this badge, Health centers must:

- - Collect data on patient social risk factors.
  - Increase the percentage of patients who received enabling services between the last two UDS reporting years.

How did health centers qualify? HRSA used data from the two latest UDS reporting periods.

- - Table 5: Staffing and Utilization (PDF – 271 KB)
  - Appendix D: Health Center Information Technology Capabilities (PDF – 171 KB)

Kintegra Family Medicine – Bessemer City currently located at 119 W. Pennsylvania Ave is moving! Effective October 14, patients will be seen at our new convenient location: 308 E. Virginia Ave., Bessemer City, NC 28016.

Thank you to Verlina Lomick, Kintegra’s Director of Community Outreach and Advocacy and all the other participants at this event who joined Governor Roy Cooper to mark this important milestone in Medicaid expansion in NC!

More than half a million North Carolinians have now enrolled in Medicaid expansion since the program began seven months ago. Beneficiaries are now able get the quality health care they need at low cost. Roy Cooper was joined by North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley, Dr. Karen L. Smith MD, FAAFP, a family physician in Raeford and Verlina Lomick, CHW-IV, Director of Community Outreach & Advocacy for Kintegra Health and health care advocates to celebrate reaching this major milestone, which had originally been projected to take as long as two years.

We are proud of everyone across the state who has and continues to work hard to expand access to care for so many North Carolinians. This is truly something to celebrate!

Click here for the full article: North Carolina Celebrates More Than 500,000 Enrolled in Medicaid Expansion | NC Gov. Cooper

We’re pleased to announce that our new practice – KBH Statesville is now fully operational. Behavioral Health counseling and Medication Management services formerly provided at KIM- Statesville now operate from this newly renovated spacious facility. Kintegra Behavioral Health- Statesville offers high-quality behavioral health services for the whole family. Click here to learn more.

Donyel B. Barber, Director of Equity Initiatives, recently spoke at the National Food as Medicine conference in Chicago. This summit aims to unite senior leaders from the food and beverage industry and healthcare sectors to address pressing challenges.

Key discussions at the conference focused on transitioning from research to actionable steps, scaling Food as Medicine initiatives through strategic partnerships, and advancing innovative programs. The event serves was a collaborative platform for leaders from consumer-packaged goods (CPG), retail, healthcare payers and providers, innovative food companies, investors, and nonprofits. Together, they work on developing effective solutions to promote Food as Medicine approaches.

Kintegra is proud to announce the launch of Mobile Optometry Care! Effective May 1, 2024, the Kintegra Mobile Optometry Unit is providing comprehensive vision care to established patients on a rotational basis. Kintegra’s state-of-the-art mobile unit fulfills a crucial role in making eye care more accessible to our patients and promoting early detection of eye conditions. Click here to learn more about Mobile Optometry.

Thank you to the staff at Kintegra Family Medicine Lexington who welcomed NC Senator Steve Jarvis and NC House Representative Larry Potts to the practice today.

Senator Jarvis and Representative Potts were accompanied by Brendan Riley, Vice President, Government Relations and External Affairs at North Carolina Community Health Center Association (NCCHCA). Robert Spencer and the KFM team provided a great overview of Kintegra’s work in the area, including the exciting services which will soon be offered through our Mobile Health Unit.

Pictured above:

Foreground L to R: Robert Spencer, KH CEO, Representative Larry Potts (district 81), Senator Steve Jarvis (district 30), NCCHCA’s Ben Riley.

Background L to R: PSRs Tonya Grimmett, Jasmin Valazco-Martinez, Jennifer Carbajal, Rafaela Herrera-Banuelos and Robin Davis.

Kintegra Health is dedicated to ensuring accessible healthcare for all, providing comprehensive care. With the use of MouthWatch Intraoral Cameras, we facilitate efficient communication between dentists and doctors, particularly benefiting patients experiencing significant discomfort. Check out the article from MouthWatch featuring our Dental department and the innovative use of intraoral cameras! click here.

We’ve done it again! Kintegra has received the following HRSA Community Health Center Quality Recognition (CHCQR) awards for Program Year 2022.

The images shown above represent the HRSA Quality Badges awarded in 2023 for the 2022 UDS reporting period.

Below are definitions and criteria for the awards.

Health Center Quality Leaders

To earn HCQL badges, health centers must have the best overall CQM performance based on average 2022 Adjusted Quartile Rankings (AQR). HRSA awards HCQL badges to health centers with AQR averages in the top three tiers (top30%). Kintegra earned the Bronze award meaning we were in the top 30% of health centers nationwide for our clinical quality metrics.

Access Enhancer:

Health centers must

- Achieve at least one of these:
  - Earn at least one HCQL or NQL badge.
  - Improve by at least a 15% in one or more CQMs in back-to-back reporting years.
- Increase by at least 5% in back-to-back reporting years.
  - Total patients.
  - Patients receiving mental health, substance use disorder, vision, dental, or enabling services.

Health Disparities Reducer

Health centers must

- Qualify for the Access Enhancer badge.
- Meet at least one of these:

1. Improve by at least a 10% in low birth weight, hypertension control, or uncontrolled diabetes CQMs and must:
  - Improve during the two most recent back-to-back reporting years for at least one racial or ethnic group.
  - Perform as well or better than the previous year for the CQM at the health center level.
2. Meet the following targets for all racial or ethnic groups they served within the latest reporting year.

Advancing Health Information Technology (HIT) for Quality:

Health centers that meet all the following criteria:

1. Adopted an electronic health record (EHR) system.
2. Offered telehealth services.
3. Exchanged clinical information online with key providers health care settings.
4. Engaged patients through health IT.
5. Collected data on patient social risk factors.

Patient Centered Medical Home Recognition (PCMH): Recognizes health centers with PCMH recognition in one or more delivery sites.

To see full definitions of Award Criteria:

Community Health Quality Recognition (CHQR) Badges | Bureau of Primary Health Care (hrsa.gov)

To see Kintegra’s specific Awardee data, (and other organizations too) click on the link below:

Health Center Program Uniform Data System (UDS) Data Overview (hrsa.gov)

For the second time in a row, Kintegra Health has achieved the Advocacy Center of Excellence (ACE) Gold status.

An Advocacy Center of Excellence (ACE) is a Community Health Center that creates a culture of advocacy to ensure that policymakers at all levels of government commit to investing in the affordable, equitable, and innovative care that health centers provide. ACE levels recognize consistent engagement and demonstrate an ongoing commitment to making advocacy an organizational priority. ACEs actively partner with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) on federal policy issues, as well as their state Primary Care Association (PCA) on key local-level policy issues impacting health centers and their patients. There are three ACE levels – Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Each ACE designation is valid for two years, through December 2025.

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This health center is a FQHC Health Center Program grantee under 42 I.S.C. 254b, and a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C. 233(g)-(n). Kintegra is an FTCA deemed organization that receives HHS funding and has Federal Public Health Service (PHS) deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.

National Quality Leader: Behavioral Health

Health Center Quality Leader

Access Enhancer

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Addressing Social Risk Factors to Health

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