Alaska Primary Care Association

“The cfo position is provided through a service agreement with cliftonlarsonallen. Cfo is under direct supervision of ed.”

“Organizational membership is available to any alaskan entity funded under the public health act, section 330 or alaskan federally qualified health center look-alike based in alaska.”

“Each organizational member appoints one individual to the board of directors. This individual is the organizational member's ceo, executive director, health director, or their designee. Two additional board positions are appointed by majority vote of the organizational members.”

“Before the 990 in filed it is reviewed by the cfo and the finance committee chair and is approved by the board of directors.”

“The organization's conflict of interest policy applies to board members, officers, and employees. Board members annually sign a conflict of interest statement. A conflict of interest, or the perception of a conflict, are disclosed to the board of directors. When any such interest becomes a matter of board action, the director with a conflict does not vote or use personal influence on the matter and is not counted in the quorum for a meeting at which board action is to be taken on the interest. The director may, however, briefly state a position on the matter and answer pertinent questions from the board. The minutes of all actions taken on such matters clearly reflect that these requirements have been met.”

“The board of directors review the executive director's compensation on an annual basis.”

“The board of directors and executive director review compensation on an annual basis.”

“The organization's governing documents, financial statements, and conflict of interest policy are available to the public upon written request.”

“To provide alaska community health centers and other primary care safety net providers with training and technical assistance so they can deliver high quality health care to patients. To assist alaskans in discovering and pursuing health careers. To assist alaskans in exploring options for health care coverage. To proactively assess new policy and regulations that could affect primary care providers.”

“Hrsa pca - provided numerous opportunities for community health center leaders and staff to interact and learn from one another and from experts in the field about improving the delivery of health care to patients. Dramatically increased the number of health centers being recognized for pcmh and quality accomplishments. Hccn - the alaska quality improvement network (aquin), alaskas health center controlled network (hccn) is a project funded under the health resources and services with a goal of improving the quality of care and health outcomes at community health centers. Aquin is comprised of 10 participating health centers from across the state. The aquin model utilizes a central data warehouse, fed daily by health centers' electronic health records (ehr). The platform has a portfolio of tools and pre- formatted reports that allow sophisticated analytics to be performed, resulting in actionable information used to improve quality. The overall purpose of the aquin is quality improvement for better health outcomes, increased patient and family engagement and lower costs. The data warehouse aims to strengthen quality, efficiency, and safety through the data-driven support of pcmh models, optimization of the clinics ehrs, and attainment of meaningful use. Scahec - facilitated 300+ individuals in exploring health care careers. Apprenticeship - the organziation is a subawardee of the state of alaska department of labor and workforce development (dolwd), division of employment and training services (dets), under the "healthy alaska through apprenticeship" grant from the us department of labor. Under this funding, apca created apprenticeship opportunities within the health care sector in the following occupations:community health worker (chw), provides care coordination for underserved populations, clinical medical assistant (cma); provides clinical support, medical administrative assistant (maa); provides administrative support in health centers, and billing and coding specialist (bcs); provides billing and coding services. Cms navigator program - assisted over 12,000 alaskans in exploring ways to obtain health care coverage.”