Buncombe Upstream: The Community Centered Health Home

MAHEC OB/GYN is one of 3 primary care sites across NC awarded the Community Centered Health Home Planning and Capacity Building grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of North Carolina. This grant extends for an 18-month period and has total budget of $125,000.

The Community Centered Health Home is a model produced by the National Prevention Institute and recognizes that factors outside the health care system affect patient health and health care professionals actively participate with community partners in improving those factors to improve population health. BCBS describe the CCHH as focusing on increasing the capacity of North Carolina communities to better understand and act on community and social determinants of health with the goal of reducing health disparities and improving the health of our state.