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PHASE 1

In March 2020, Community Care Cooperative and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers identified pivoting to telehealth services as a key strategy for meeting the needs of their low-income, diverse communities and for keeping their member health centers financially sound.

WHAT WE’VE ACHIEVED

Our work during Phase I demonstrated the need for FQHCs to integrate telehealth as a long-term capability beyond the COVID-19 emergency.

In November 2020, the Consortium successfully completed Phase I. Here’s what we achieved during the inaugural phase.

Since March 2020, the Consortium has achieved the following:

  • We provided the hardware, software and IT support needed for member health centers to maintain their operations via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • We provided patient monitoring devices to facilitate remote COVID care for members to monitor patients and determine when hospital care was required.
  • We piloted and extended the provision of smart phones, connectivity, and connected devices to 1,500 patients across Massachusetts
  • We created a collaborative learning community to share knowledge across member health centers.
  • We partnered with our members to conduct assessments of their telehealth capabilities and developed customized plans to advance telehealth maturity for each member.
  • We assessed the patient experience with telehealth via a patient satisfaction survey.

Phase II of our work began in January 2021. Learn about our goals for this year and beyond.

Learn More About Phase 2

A lead grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation helped launch Phase I of the FQHC Telehealth Consortium, which resulted in a successful $5 million campaign to fund robust telehealth services at 35 FQHCs.

CONSORTIUM FUNDERS

Funding for the Consortium was seeded through a lead gift from The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and supported to date through the generosity of the following funders:

  • Barbara and Amos Hostetter
  • Beacon Health Options
  • CareQuest Institute for Oral Health
  • Federal Communications Commission administered COVID-19 Telehealth Program funded by the CARES Act
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation
  • The Klarman Family Foundation
  • Landry Family Foundation
  • Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
  • The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation
  • Anonymous Foundation
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