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Quality Of Care In Community Health Centers And Factors Associated With Performance, Julia Paradise, Peter Shin, Jessica Sharac, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Kaiser Commission On Medicaid And The Uninsured

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This study examines quality performance among community health centers (CHC) on three key measures of primary and preventive care — diabetes and blood pressure control and timely Pap tests — using quality in Medicaid managed care organizations (MCO) as a benchmark. The study also identifies factors that differ significantly between high- and lower-performing health centers. Most health centers perform better than 75% of all Medicaid MCOs on the two chronic care measures, and more than 1 in 10 exceed this benchmark on all three quality measures. Few health centers lag behind average Medicaid MCO performance on all three measures. Lower-performing …