Our History
Our health center's full legal name
What is Butte Silver Bow Primary Health Care Clinic, Inc.?
The government agency that funds part of our operations through a federal grant that we need to compete for every 3 years.
What is HRSA (Health Resources & Services Administration)?
"Mission & Vision", "Integrity & Trust", "Team Work", "Empathy for All", & "Professionalism"
What are our Core Values?
The people in the community that can receive services at any of our health center sites.
Who is everyone?
(You can be Pennyless or a Billionaire ... we are here for you!)
This meeting must occur every single month with a quorum.
What is the Board Meeting?
The year that our clinic first opened its doors in Butte.
What is 1986?
An accreditation through NCQA that shows we operate with a patient-centered approach to care and demonstrate commitment to continuous quality improvement which reduces healthcare costs and improves patient outcomes.
What is PCMH (Patient Centered Medical Home)?
A specialized center within our clinics where a multidisciplinary team, including trained interviewers and counselors, law enforcement, child protective services, prosecution, medical, and victim advocacy, work together to address child abuse cases and to prevent further victimization of children.
What is the Child Evaluation Center?
(This service is available in Butte, Dillon and Anaconda)
As an FQHC, SWMTCHC offers this to reduce the cost of services for certain patients who qualify. This must be approved by the Board of Directors.
What is a sliding fee scale discount?
The percent of people on the board of directors of an FQHC who must be a "patient" or user of the health centers services.
What is 51%?
The year we opened the Dillon Clinic.
What is 2002?
A basic quality improvement process that allows an organization to test and analyze a change on a small scale to determine whether it is improving a process which could then be implemented on a larger scale.
What is PDSA (Plan Do Study Act)?
This crucial program allows defined providers and board members federal coverage for malpractice insurance without needing to pay insurance premiums which saves millions of dollars annually.
What is the Federal Tort Claim Act?
(In return, we must complete annual trainings and defined risk management activities.)
Qualifying for the sliding fee is based on these two things.
What is income and family size?
Their focus is on mission, vision, values, adopting policies, and monitoring performance targets (finance and quality) of SWMTCHC.
What is the Board of Directors?
These 2 important SWMTCHC service entities opened in 2019.
What is the Anaconda Clinic and Blacktail Pharmacy?
A federal program also administered by HRSA that provides scholarships and loan repayment to healthcare professionals practicing at approved sites where there are health professional shortages.
What is NHSC? (National Health Service Corps)
The number of people currently employed by SWMTCHC
What is 179?
A highly regulated pharmaceutical discount program that provides "savings" back to the FQHC that allows covered entities to "stretch scarce federal resources as far as possible, reaching more eligible patients and providing more comprehensive services."
What is 340B?
The goal for the number of unique patients HRSA wants us to see in a calendar year.
What is 13,750?
The first Executive Director of our health center that went on to lead the Montana Primary Care Association and today there is a prestigious award in his name.
Who is Dr. Alan Strange?
This is the annual reporting system that provides standardized information about our Health Center's quality performance and operation to HRSA.
What is the UDS (Uniform Data System)?
This is a healthcare delivery and payment model in which providers are paid based on the quality, outcomes, equity, and cost‑effectiveness of care, rather than the volume of services delivered.
What is Value Based Care?
This is a collaborative approach to patient care in which professionals from multiple disciplines work together, each bringing their own area of expertise, to create the best outcomes for patients and helps to prevent health care professional burnout.
What is Interdisciplinary Care?
This is the name of the accountable care organization that Montana health centers have formed to negotiate payments for improving patient outcomes while lowering costs.
What is Montana Health Plus