Case Studies

How the Value Transformation Framework Can Advance CDC’s 6|18 Initiative Teche Action Clinic is a private, not-for-profit federally qualified health center providing comprehensive, safe, quality health care at thirteen locations and a mobile clinic for residents in southeastern Louisiana. Teche Action Clinic was the first community health center in Louisiana to receive accreditation by [...]

From 1978 to 1983, researchers at the University of North Carolina conducted a National Evaluation of Rural Primary Care Programs. Thirty years later, many of the programs they studied have closed, but the challenges of providing rural health care have persisted. I explored the histories of 4 surviving rural primary care programs and identified [...]