Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center Receives Bronze HRSA Quality Award
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Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center
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CORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CENTER RECEIVES BRONZE HRSA QUALITY AWARD
CS-HCC also awarded HRSA Health Disparities, Access Enhancer, and Advancing Health Information Technology Badges
New Haven, Conn. September 19,2024 –Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center(CS-HHC) Connecticut’s first federally funded health center, has been named a 2024 Health Center Quality Leader (HCQL) Awardee in four categories. These recognitions come from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HRSA awards badges to federally qualified health centers nationally based on the Uniform Data System (UDS). The UDS provides information about the performance and operation of centers that deliver services to underserved communities and vulnerable populations. “These awards substantiate our continued devotion to ensuring that CS-HHC patients receive services of the highest quality. We are grateful for HRSA’s acknowledgement” stated Michael R. Taylor, Chief Executive Officer.
The most significant of these recognitions is the Health Center Quality Leader Bronze Badge, which ranks CS-HHC’s clinical performance among the top 30 percent of more than 1400 federally funded health centers nationwide.
CS-HHC also received three additional HRSA badges:
- Access Enhancer Badge,which recognizes back-to-back reporting year improvements in clinical quality measures; total overall patients; and patients receiving mental health, substance use disorder, vision, dental, or enabling services (improved access to care, preventive services, and patient satisfaction)
- Health Disparities Reducer Badge, which recognizes improvement in low birth-weight babies, hypertension control, or uncontrolled diabetes
- Advancing Health Information Technology (IT) Badge,which recognizes centers that adopted an electronic health record system, offered telehealth services, exchanged online clinical information with providers’ healthcare settings, engaged patients through health IT, and collected patient social risk factor data.
About Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center
The Cornell Scott-Hill Health Centeris the oldest and among the largest community Health Centers in Connecticut. The Center provides integrated medical, dental and behavioral health solutions throughout the Greater New Haven area and the Lower Naugatuck Valley with the goal of improving the health status of patients and the community at large. The Cornell Scott-Hill Health Centerhas been a leader in community healthcare innovation for over 55 years. Learn more at
www.cornellscott.org.
About HRSA:
The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, supports equitable health care for the nation’s highest-need communities. Its programs support people with low incomes, people with HIV, pregnant people, children, parents, rural communities, transplant patients, and the health workforce.
