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Packard Health Earns Quality Improvement Awards

Sandell Bennett — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:43:40 +0000

Packard Health was recently awarded a total of $81,541 in Quality Improvement Awards (QIA) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Program.

As a Federally Qualified Health Center, Packard Health submits data reflecting its services to the HRSA annually. Awards are given in recognition of high performance or significant quality improvement gains and are to be used to further strengthen quality improvement activities.

The categories that Packard Health received awards in and their corresponding award amounts include:

Clinical Quality Improvers (demonstrating improvement in quality measures) – $24,416
Access Enhancers (providing more services to more patients) – $5,750
Health Disparities Reducers (made at least a 10% improvement across different racial/ethnic groups) – $43,125
Advancing Health Information Technology for Quality (collecting social determinants of health data and using it to drive care) – $8,250

Quality Director, Jessica Stanek, “I am so proud that Packard is being recognized. Receiving these incentives can help us provide [care] access to even more patients.”

Congratulations to the entire Packard Health team for working so hard and continuing to set the bar higher every year!

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Hometown Health Hero – Lori Bennett, FNP

Sandell Bennett — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:11:01 +0000

Lori Bennett, Family Nurse Practitioner, has a friendly smile and warm heart, and she brings that caring to her patients at Packard Health as well as to family shelters across the county.

Lori received a great honor last week – 2019 Hometown Health Hero from the Michigan Public Health Week Partnership. Lori created a program called F-SHARP (Family Shelter Assessment and Referral Program). She visits families in shelters across the county and connects them with health care at Packard and The Corner Health Center.

On her visits to INH-Alpha House, SafeHouse Center, Ozone House and Staples Family Center Lori meets with families, identifying immediate health needs, making referrals, and setting up appointments to see her at Packard Health or The Corner Health Center.

The program is funded by Washtenaw Coordinated Funders.

Housing instability and inability to access health care go hand-in-hand. Lori serves the mothers, fathers and children who deal with those stressors every day. Her specialty is building trust.

We applaud Lori for her “get-out-there-and-do-it” attitude. She saw a need; she created a solution.

Congratulations, Lori. You’re our Hometown Health Hero!

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Award for behavioral therapist – thank you, public and private partners!

Allison Halerz — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:40:22 +0000

Rebekah Warren, Raymond Rion, MD, Nora Maloy, DrPH

Packard Health is honored to receive a grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation, the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

This grant of $70,820 will support a behavioral therapist at our Ypsilanti office, improving access to integrated health care services for low-income, uninsured patients managing mental illness, behavioral health problems or substance abuse disorders.

On hand for the award ceremony on March 31 were Rebekah Warren, State Senator, D-District 18 and member of Michigan Mental Health Commission, Raymond Rion, MD, Packard Health Executive Director, and Nora Maloy, DrPH, Director of Programs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation, and Packard Health board member.

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