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HRSA awards Community Health Quality Recognition badges to our health centers
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recognized The Wright Center for Community Health for quality and access improvements that enhance patient care.
HRSA annually reviews the performance data of health centers across the United States to highlight organizations that meet or exceed its goals in categories of special focus, including quality, access, and health information technology, using data from the Uniform Data System (UDS). In August, HRSA awarded Community Health Quality Recognition (CHQR) badges for excellence in clinical quality to nearly 1,000 health centers across the country.
HRSA first awarded CHQR badges in 2021. Since then, The Wright Center has earned more than a dozen badges. HRSA awarded The Wright Center with the following badges:
- High-Value Care, which recognizes health centers that demonstrate improvements in clinical quality while effectively managing costs.
- Improving Health Care Access, which recognizes health centers that have increased the total number of patients and the number of patients receiving comprehensive services – including mental health, substance use disorder, dental, and other services – by at least 5% between calendar year 2024 and 2025, the two most recent UDS reporting periods.
- Advancing Health IT, which recognizes health centers that use technology to improve health care and make it easier for patients to access care. This includes increasing access to telehealth, helping patients stay involved in their care, sharing information between health systems, and collecting data to better meet patients’ health needs.
- Heart Health, which recognizes health centers that demonstrate outstanding performance in clinical quality measures related to heart health, including screening patients for tobacco use and offering help to quit, preventing heart disease, using the proper medications to improve heart health, and helping patients control high blood pressure.
HRSA-funded health centers, which include The Wright Center, provide comprehensive, whole-person primary health services at more than 16,000 service sites nationwide to one in eight children, one in five rural residents, and one in 15 adults 65 and older. Information about badge recipients can be found on an online dashboard at hrsa.gov.
