July 7, 2025
At the Health Center Controlled Network’s 2025 In-Person Meeting, hosted by the Health Federation of Philadelphia, professionals from health centers across Pennsylvania gathered on June 5 and 6 for networking, collaboration, and educational opportunities.
The event was held at Normandy Farm Hotel & Conference Center in Blue Bell, Pa.
On Day 1, HFP’s Jessica Chen and Suzanne Cohen opened the event with an overview of the Value-Based Care (VBC) landscape and its key players in Pennsylvania, highlighting common challenges faced by health centers when engaging in value-based payment programs and discussing options and tools for building a VBC program that will maximize revenue, efficiency, and improve patient care. This session laid the groundwork for panel discussions featuring high-performing Network health centers, and showcasing best practices related to key VBC metrics including Annual Well Visits, Hypertension Control, and Pediatric Medicaid measures. Following each panel, participants engaged in breakout groups, providing meaningful opportunities for peer-to-peer learning.
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The HFP HCCN Team would like to extend a special thank you to the panelists from participating health centers for sharing their time and insights at this year's meeting:
- Delaware Valley Community Health, Keystone Rural Health Consortia, and River Valley Health for presenting on their work related to Annual Well Visits;
- ChesPenn Health Services, Keystone Rural Health Consortia, and Wayne Memorial Community Health Center for their presentations on Hypertension Control efforts; and
- Berks Community Health Center, Esperanza Health Center, and Scranton Primary Health Care Center for sharing what they have done around pediatric well visits and lead screening.
Day 2 of the meeting focused on Azara DRVS, a data reporting and analytics tool used by many HCCN members. Azara’s Clinical Transformation Team reinforced the essential elements of value-based care programming covered in Day 1, and worked with participants to dig into those elements and identify practical strategies for leveraging tools in DRVS to empower organizations in their Value-Based Care work.
One panelist and participant, Dr. Karen Wang, found the event to be “a great mix of being low key and high yield.”
“Getting to hear from so many different health centers facing the same challenges we are, and hearing how they approach those challenges, was very useful,” said Wang, who is Chief Medical Officer at Berks Community Health Center. “It just felt good, during these challenging times, to be with each other and support one another.”
Led by Suzanne Cohen, the Senior Director of Population Health at the Health Federation, the HCCN team includes: Holly Hainsworth, Director of Population Health Initiatives; Jessica Chen, Director of Quality Improvement and Evaluation; Khai Williams, Director of Clinical Informatics; Emma Moulder, Project Coordinator; and Anoosha Vijjapu, Data Analyst.
Catherine Nealon, Assistant Vice President of Clinical Program Development, Population Health & 340B Program at The Wright Center for Community Health, said she appreciated all of the new tools shared at the meeting. “I can't wait to take this back to the rest of the team and start focusing on the care gaps with our two new employees,” Nealon said.
“It’s always a learning experience, with lots of new information and ideas of workflow initiatives.” Candace Neiman, Chief Clinical Officer at Community Health & Dental Care, said of attending the annual meeting.
Wang credited the team with organizing and facilitating an event that fostered productive collaboration.
“By listening to and sharing with each other, we were able to come away with real-world solutions and ideas to bring back to our health centers,” said Wang, who was a panelist for the Pediatric Medicaid measure. “There was also ample time to have real conversations with our colleagues from around the state.”
The HFP HCCN Team extends our thanks to our meeting event sponsors who helped to make this year’s session possible:
The HCCN is a grant-supported program open to Federally Qualified Health Centers and look-alikes across Pennsylvania. The project focuses on supporting patient-centered health care delivery and population health. The HCCN helps health centers to optimize use of information technology tools and supports quality improvement efforts such as data collection, management, analysis, and reporting. The HCCN data warehouse represents de-identified health services and outcomes data for more than 500,000 health center patients in Pennsylvania.
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $3,122,451 with 0% financed with nongovernmental sources.
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About the Health Federation of Philadelphia
The Health Federation of Philadelphia is a public health nonprofit that promotes health equity for marginalized communities by advancing access to high-quality, integrated, and comprehensive health and human services.
The Health Federation of Philadelphia serves as a keystone supporting a network of Community Health Centers as well as the broader base of public and private-sector organizations that deliver healthcare, public health and human services to vulnerable populations.