Programs
About ACU's Centers of Excellence Initiative
Uniting both the general concept of Centers of Excellence as well as the Health Resources and Services Administration’s specific Advancing Health Center Excellence Framework, the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved’s emerging Centers of Excellence (COE) program aims to identify and develop a framework of standards and create supportive resources to help health centers develop their capacity and excellence in critical areas to improve access to quality healthcare for all as true Centers of Excellence.
ACU has been deliberate in researching best practices and has now compiled a series of fact sheets—featuring essential steps and a visualized self-assessment—and accompanying briefs through stakeholder and subject matter expert interviews and literature reviews on crucial areas of health center services, including:
- Eye Health and Vision Care
- Suicide Prevention in Primary Care
Note: Some resources featured on this page are being revised and will be made available again soon. Thank you for your patience!
NEW! Health Center Excellence Fact Sheets: Essential Steps and Self-Assessments
Accompanying our more detailed briefs, these concise fact sheets provide essential recommendations on best practices in different areas of health center services with a visualized self-assessment organizations can use to assess their progression toward excellence.
Health Center Excellence: Best Practice Briefs
These briefs provide essential guidance on best practices, resources to evaluate and improve your health center’s services, and recommendations from leaders and subject matters in the field.
Eye Health and Vision Care Services: Essential Steps for Health Centers
Developed through interviews with FQHC experts and relevant research, this brief explores essential practices and resources that health centers can use to guide their existing or emerging eye health and vision care services.
Suicide Prevention in Primary Care & Supporting Healthcare Teams: Essential Steps for Health Centers
Based on interviews with national experts and resources from ACU’s Suicide Safer Care program, this brief outlines recommended best practices for suicide prevention in primary care, as well as organizational techniques to address suicide risk in clinicians.
More Information
For questions or comments on ACU’s COE Initiative, please contact Rick Brown, Senior Director of Communications, Membership, & Special Initiatives. This initiative is made possible with the generous support of the Centene Corporation.
