Quality of care in Free and Charitable Clinics: Creating a Roadmap to Equity

Prediabetes is a preventable health condition that increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. An estimated 86 million American adults have prediabetes but only one in 10 of these people are aware they have it.
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A Hypertension Program for Free and Charitable Clinics is designed to advance and elevate the work of free and charitable clinics throughout country and showcase what free and charitable clinics can do as a group, with a focus on uncontrolled and resistant hypertension.
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Mental illness is a significant and widespread problem in the United States – nationally, 43.8 million adults experienced a mental illness in the past year, with 10 million adults coping with a serious mental illness (SMI).
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Access to oral health is a challenge for uninsured and underinsured individuals and their families. Safety net oral health facilities help this vulnerable population meet that challenge. This section provides tools and resources such as how- to guides, case studies, a variety of publications and links related to developing an oral health access program.
Oral Health Low Literacy Program

Non-adherence to medication is considered to be one of the largest drug related issues. Consequences of non-adherence include worsening condition, increased comorbid diseases, increased health care costs, and death.
Medication Adherence Texting Pilot Program

Little information exists to accurately describe the free and charitable clinic movement and community; comprehensive, and up-to-date information about even basic information such as how many free and charitable clinics exist, where they are located, how many patients they serve and what range of services they provide are not available.
National Survey of Free & Charitable Clinics

A multi-year, multi-clinic Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition and direct clinic award program that will provide direct coaching to recipients on the transformation of care delivery and obtaining recognition from the National Committee of Quality Assurance (NCQA); the goal of the initiative is to drive quality improvement in free and charitable clinics.
Driving Quality Outcomes

Americares manages a number of specialized pharmaceutical initiatives which include the Boehringer Ingelheim Produce to Give Initiative, Walgreens Flu Voucher Program, and Factor it Forward.
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