These established friends, and newer ones who are listed on these pages are a constant source of enhanced services—the ones that add value to a patient’s experience at the health center and help her stay healthy after she leaves. With the funding our partners seek and provide, medical equipment is purchased, new books are distributed at holiday time, special personal items like diabetes monitoring equipment can be demonstrated and given to the patient for home use (class pictured above, taught by Certified Diabetes Educator Andrea Troutner). And with the volunteer time they offer, flu shots are given at the local shelters for the homeless, water bottles are donated and distributed to children at the school Walkathons, hand-carved wooden toys become treasures to pediatric patients, speeches are made on CCI’s behalf to important audiences, and new ideas flow to improve our performance in the centers and in the community.

Message from the Chair

Message from the Executive Director

Message from the Medical Director

Performance Improvement Committee Report

Program Committee Report

Finance Committee Report

CCI Partners 2004-2005

Program Committee
Beth Durham, Chair

The Program Committee is responsible for recommending new services to the Board of Directors, monitoring existing services and evaluating overall program performance. Program Committee activities to highlight for 2005 include:

Pediatric Obesity Program – this program, funded with a Community Impact Grant from Kaiser Permanente, provides education and guidance to families with at-risk or obese children on how to prevent and treat childhood obesity. The Committee reviewed the care plan and monitored the level of participation. The staff is prepared to serve more children and their families as the care plan directs, but have encountered expected different cultural perceptions about the relationship between weight and health in childhood, complicating effective education and treatment.

National Health Disparities Collaborative – CCI continues participation for the fourth year in this program, which sets clinical practice standards for certain diseases whose instance is disproportionately high in the underserved population. The Committee reviewed the reports and quarterly narratives and discussed ideas for how to represent progress longitudinally and compare CCI’s practice to national norms.

340B Pharmacy Program – this federal-discount program enables participating health centers to provide low-cost drugs to eligible patients. Our 340B program was inaugurated this year at the Marilyn K. Freeland, R.N., Family Health Center in partnership with the Langley Pharmacy, which is located on the floor below the Center. The partnership and location work well for increased access for our patients. The Committee reviewed the policies and procedures and is tracking participation.

In addition, the Committee also reviewed the 2004 Self-Sufficiency Standard for Montgomery County, which reported on how the cost of living in the County impacts the lives of low-income residents. In 2006, the Committee plans to examine what implications the report may have for CCI’s sliding fee schedule.