FQHC History
The year that the first community health center was established in the United States?
What is 1965?
The number of years that TCCH has been operating as of 2023 in Indian River County
What is 30 years?
This meeting must occur with a quorum each month
What is a board meeting?
Can receive services at an FQHC
What is everyone in the community?
This person oversees the compliance program at TCCH?
Who is the compliance officer, Heather Miranda?
He co-founded the FQHC movement with Dr. Count Gibson
Who is Dr. Jack Geiger?
The number of unique individuals served by FQHC's across the country
What is over 30 million people?
The only employee that is hired and evaluated by the Board of Directors
Who is the CEO?
As an FQHC, TCCH offers this to reduce the cost of services for patients and it is approved by the Board of Directors
What is a sliding fee discount?
The percent of people on the board of directors of an FQHC who must be a user of the health centers services.
What is 51%?
It's the first health center location in the northeast US
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
There are 14,000 of these across the country
What is FQHC's?
Boards keep track of their meeting discussions and decisions with these
What are meeting minutes?
Qualifying for the sliding fee is based on these two things
What is income and family size?
This policy is to protect the interests of TCCH when entering into a transaction or arrangement that might benefit the private interests of a board member or office
What is Conflict of Interest?
It is the location of the first health center in the southern US
What is the Mississippi Delta?
TCCH locations that have pharmacies within their location
What is Gifford, Fellsmere, and Oslo?
Their focus is on mission, vision, values, adopting policies, and monitoring performance targets (finance and quality) of the FQHC
What is the responsibility of the Board of Directors?
The discount drug purchasing program that is utilized by TCCH for our patients.
What is 340B?
The health center’s organizational structure, articles of incorporation, bylaws, and other relevant documents ensure the health center governing board maintains this type of oversight of the TCCH
What is Board Authority?
This was the year that Congress approved funding for the Community Health Center Program.
What is 1975?
Number of clinical locations TCCH has including the jail
What is 9?
This person is responsible for leading the process of governance for the Board of Directors
Who is the Board Chair?
The different health care services offered by TCCH
What is medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, lab, x-ray, and optical?
Health center employees and immediate family members (i.e., spouses, children, parents, or siblings through blood, adoption, or marriage) of employees may not be one of these
What is a board member?