National Health Center Needs Assessment
NACHC compiles, analyzes and summarizes the main themes from real-time input regarding successes, challenges, needs and opportunities within local health center settings and state-wide. Learn more about these summaries in our Voices from the Field section.
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Health Care (HRSA/BPHC) tasked NACHC with conducting a single, consolidated national needs assessment in partnership with all National Cooperative Agreement (NCA) entities starting in 2017. The results are intended to inform the design and delivery of training and technical assistance (TTA) provided by HRSA/BPHC through NCA organizations. The national health center TTA needs assessment questionnaire was distributed during Fall 2018 to all health centers throughout the country, with 56% of health centers responding. Top line results are displayed in two infographics here:
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Health Center Resource Clearinghouse
Training & Technical Assistance materials that address health center needs can be found on the Health Center Resource Clearinghouse. This site is a collaborative effort of HRSA/BPHC and National Cooperative Agreement entities.
Needs Assessment State Profiles
State summaries of the 2018 needs assessment findings are provided below:
State did not meet the minimum threshold to receive an individual state profile based on the number of needs assessment responses.
State did not meet the minimum threshold to receive an individual state profile based on the number of needs assessment responses.
Voices from the Field
NACHC assesses the needs of health centers and stakeholders on an ongoing basis through multiple modes and methods. In addition to formal methods like quantitative needs assessment tools and qualitative focus groups, NACHC utilizes its’ conferences and convenings throughout the year to engage with health center providers, staff and administrators, Board members and patients as well as federal partners, state/regional Primary Care Associations, Health Center Controlled Networks and national Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) partners.
NACHC compiles, analyzes and summarizes the main themes from real-time input, including the reflections and ideas voiced from those closest to the health center program and most familiar with the successes, challenges, needs and opportunities within local health center settings and state-wide.
Recent thematic summaries of “Voices from the Field” are:
- Today, Tomorrow and Beyond: Priority Areas Summary Report (November 2019)
- Today, Tomorrow and Beyond: Priority Areas & Themes: Priority Areas Infographic (November 2019)
- Health Center Innovation of the Future (October 2019)
- What is the Health Center of the Future? (August 2019)
- Health Center Workforce Summit (March 2019)
- Transforming Health Center Performance (January 2019)
- What is the Health Center of the Future? HRSA-Facilitated Discussion (November 2018)