Citrus Health Network was awarded five Community Health Center Quality Recognition (CHQR) Badges by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).  The Community Health Quality Recognition (CHQR) badges recognize Health Center Program awardees and look-alikes (LALs) that have made notable quality improvement achievements in the areas of access, quality, health equity, health information technology, and COVID-19 public health emergency response for the most recent Health Center Program Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting period.

Citrus was awarded the following badges:

Health Center Quality Leader- Gold: Represents health center awardees and LALs that meet or exceed national benchmarks for one or more of the clinical quality measures (CQMs) groups that promote behavioral health, heart health, diabetes health, HIV prevention and care, and maternal and child health.  Health centers that achieve Gold tier are among the top 10% in performance of all health centers in overall CQMs.

Access Enhancers: Increases the total number of patients served and the number of patients who receive at least one comprehensive service (mental health, substance abuse, vision, dental, and/or enabling) by at least 5%.

Health Disparities Reducer: Demonstrates improvements in select CQMs during consecutive UDS reporting years (2020 and 2021 UDS) for at least one racial/ethnic groups; or meets established benchmarks for all racial/ethnic groups served within the most recent UDS reporting year.

Advancing Health Information Technology (HIT) for Quality: Meets all criteria to optimize HIT services that advance telehealth, patient engagement, interoperability, and collection of social determinants of health data to increase access to care and advance quality of care.

Patient Centered Medical Home Recognition (PCMH): Achieves PCMH recognition in one or more delivery sites.