The Health Center Resource Clearinghouse provides a space for promising practices, identified and submitted by HRSA and HRSA-funded TTA partners for use with the health center population and/or in the health center setting.
What is a Promising Practice?
A promising practice is a model, program or activity with evidence of effectiveness in small-scale interventions or with the potential to generate actionable data that could assist in taking the practice to scale and generalizing the results to diverse populations and settings. The Clearinghouse collects Field-Generated Promising Practices.
Through the identification and dissemination of operational promising practices, health center professionals can learn from one another about programs and services designed to enhance access to health care, and improve health outcomes and health equity, within the context of a learning health center system. Through the Clearinghouse site, health centers share success in “real-time” by showcasing an intervention, approach or practice with proven impact.
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Criteria for Promising Practices
Promising practices must demonstrate:
- Operational Feasibility. The practice has the ability to be implemented and shared.
- Implementation/Action Steps. The practice has the ability to be replicated and/or scaled beyond the initial implementation.
In addition, promising practices often demonstrate impact related to:
- Impact/Outcomes. The practice has been used successfully by at least one organization and has an emerging, positive track record of improved clinical, operational, or financial (cost) outcomes, as measured by PSDA or other quality improvement mechanism.
- Satisfaction. The practice demonstrates improved patient or staff satisfaction as measured by a satisfaction survey/tool.
- Data Collection Mechanism. The practice includes a way to track initial (quantitative and/or qualitative) data to support the establishment of benchmarks or represents a new method of collecting data, achieving outcomes, or analyzing data that improves health center benchmarks and measurements.
- Partnerships. The practice uses or creates innovative, strong partnerships that maximize efficiency, as measured by tracking health center efficiency from increased funding or increased visits, improved clinical outcomes, or similar measure.
* These criteria align with and build upon HRSA’s Bureau of Primary Health Care’s process for identifying promising practices through Health Center Operational Site Visits (OSVs) as outlined in a series of OSV reports from 2018 – 2019.
How Does the Clearinghouse Collect and Promote Promising Practices?
Clearinghouse PPs are submitted by our partners who attest that they meet the above criteria. You can submit a promising practice to the Clearinghouse through the button to the right. Promising practices are accessible through the topic searches below and are incorporated into all Clearinghouse learning resources as a way to advance emerging practice.
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*Note: A resource may fit under multiple topic areas.
