Models of Care for Racial Health Equity award program

Award amount: 20 awards of $50,000

Application deadline: Closed

Program Description

NACHC is pleased to announce the “Models of Care for Health Equity” award program. The funding program’s objective is to enable community health centers to expand, strengthen, or enhance effective models of care (i.e., programs, services, structure of care delivery, clinical intervention, or provider training) that improve health outcomes for a target patient of color population. For the purposes of this award, patient of color is defined as race categorization of Asian, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, Black/African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, more than one race and/or ethnicity categorization of Hispanic or Latino/a.

Examples of models of care that could be awarded include (but are not limited to):

• A health center stratified its patient outcome data, found disparities in blood pressure control metrics for Black/African American adults among the patient population. Therefore, the health center launched an initiative focused on blood pressure control in this patient population and measured improvements over time. If selected, the funds from this grant could support additional outreach efforts for the initiative, purchase supplies to continue to serve participants, train additional staff on the initiative, or another acceptable use that sustains, enhances, or strengthens the program.
• A health center recognizes that agricultural workers employed in the health center’s service area are not receiving primary healthcare services. To encourage agricultural workers and their families to receive care, the health center hired a community health worker (CHW) to conduct outreach at work sites and subsequently the health center has seen an increase in patients in this special population. If selected, the funds from this grant could support the salary of the CHW or an additional CHW, hire certified medical translators for provider visits, purchase equipment, or another use that removes barriers to primary care for agricultural workers and their families.

Eligible Organizations:

• Eligible organizations must be a § 330 funded or look-alike health center.
• Eligible organizations must be a NACHC Organization Health Center Member in good standing (dues paid through March 31, 2024).