The purpose of this new chapter is to support health centers with improving or expanding their care coordination efforts. Underlying many new models of care is the concept of care coordination, which emphasizes collaboration between providers to increase quality of care and ultimately improve patient outcomes as well as reduce the cost of health care. This chapter makes the case for integrating outreach workers into care coordination teams and shares examples of how health centers can accomplish this.
The new chapter is available upon request to Health Center Program Grantees and Primary Care Associations.