Community Health Center Springfield, Missouri

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Community Health CenterSpringfield, Missouri

• Midwest Health Disparities Collaborative

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Current and Future Locations
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• Ten years of grass roots community efforts by
  Advocates for a Healthy Community, Inc., led to
  the establishment of JVCHC in 2002.
• JVCHC delivers quality primary medical and dental
  care to residents in Greene County, the third
  largest community in Missouri.
• JVCHC was awarded the 2002 Salute to Health Care
  Award by the Springfield Area Chamber of
  Commerce.
• Currently, services are provided at two
  locations, a dental clinic at 618 N. Benton and a
  medical clinic at 3000 E. Division.
• An additional medical clinic at 630 W. Kearney
  will open in April 2005.

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Mission Vision

• To provide high quality, comprehensive, and
  accessible health care.
• To assure that all underserved populations in
  Southwest Missouri have access to high quality,
  affordable primary health services.

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Team Members

• Brooks Miller, M.A., Executive Director (Senior
  Leadership)
• John Bentley, M.D., Medical Director (Physician
  Champion)
• Tim Shryack, R.N., BSN, Director, Clinical
  Services (Clinical/Technical Expertise)
• Stella Plaster, Clinic Manager (Day-to-Day
  Leader/Key Contact)
• Matt Seebauer, IT Specialist

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Brooks Miller

• Stella Plaster
• Matt Seebauer

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Tim Shryack

• John Bentley, MD

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Aim

• Jordan Valley will redesign the clinical
  practice of our patients with diabetes by
  implementing the Care and Improvement Models in
  order to develop strategies that improve health
  outcomes and eliminate health disparities.

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Population of Focus

• During the Collaborative, Jordan Valley will
  focus on the patients of one of our providers
  (Dr. Bentley). This includes approximately 213
  patients with diabetes who have been identified
  as active clinic patients of Dr. Bentley.

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Key Diabetes Measures
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Registry

• JVCHC utilized VirtualCHC to host PECS on our
  server.
• Populating our registry is a collaborative effort
  between providers, nurses, medical records,
  support staff, and information systems (Key
  contact Stella Plaster).
• 30 patients are currently entered on our registry.

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Key Partnerships

• Springfield-Greene County Health Department
• City of Springfield
• St. Johns/Cox Hospitals
• Missouri Primary Care Association