Health Center Program Uniform Data System (UDS) Data Overview
Each calendar year, Health Resources and Services Administration Health Center Program awardees are required to report a rigorous core set of information, including data on patient characteristics, services provided, clinical processes and health outcomes, patients’ use of services, staffing, costs, and revenues as part of a standardized reporting system known as the UDS. View the most recent national program awardee data.
Community Health Center for the New River Valley is pleased to announce that we have received several recognitions from this esteemed program. We thank our staff for their dedication, our patients for their trust, and our benefactors for their steadfast support.
The awards include:
National Quality Leader (NQL)
NQL badges are awarded to health center awardees and look-alikes that meet or exceed national benchmarks for one or more of the clinical quality measure (CQMs) groups that promote behavioral health, heart health, diabetes health, HIV prevention and care, and maternal and child health. In addition to meeting the benchmark criteria outlined below, health centers must report a minimum number of patients in a clinical quality measure’s (CQM) denominator to be eligible for a National Quality Leader badge. Health centers must report at least 70 patients in each CQM denominator and meet/exceed the benchmark threshold for all CQMs in a given National Quality Leader category.
Advancing Health Access Enhancer Technology for Quality
The Access Enhancer badge recognizes health centers that have increased the total number of patients and the number of patients who receive at least one comprehensive service (mental health, substance abuse, vision, dental, and/or enabling) by at least 5% during consecutive UDS reporting periods (2020 and 2021 UDS). To be eligible, a health center must achieve at least one HCQL or NQL badge, or demonstrate at least a 15 percentage point improvement in one or more CQMs between consecutive reporting periods.
Health Disparities Reducer
The Health Disparities Reducer badge recognizes health centers that qualify for the Access Enhancer badge and meet at least one of the following two criteria:
• Demonstrate at least a 10 percentage point improvement in low birth weight, hypertension control, and/or uncontrolled diabetes CQMs during consecutive UDS reporting years (2020 and 2021 UDS) for at least one racial/ethnic group, while maintaining or improving the health center’s overall CQM performance from the previous reporting year; and/or
• Meet the following benchmarks for all racial/ethnic groups served within the most recent UDS reporting year.
| Clinical Quality Measure | Benchmark |
| Low birth weight – Inverse Measure | 7.7% (Adjusted National Vital Statistics System Average) |
| Hypertension control | 60.8% (Healthy People 2030 Target)01 |
| Uncontrolled diabetes – Inverse Measure | 11.6% (Healthy People 2030 Target) |
Advancing Health Information Technology (HIT) for Quality
Recognizes health centers that meet all criteria to optimize HIT services. Eligibility is calculated using 2021 UDS data (Appendix D: Health Center Information Technology Capabilities and Appendix E: Other Data Elements (PDF – 171 KB)). Health centers must meet the following five criteria:
• Adopted an electronic health record (EHR) system
• Offers telehealth services
• Exchanges clinical information electronically with key providers’ health care settings
• Engages patients through health IT
• Collects data on patient social risk factors
Patient Centered Medical Home Recognition (PCMH)
NCQA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition program was developed to identify medical practices that have invested in a model of care that puts patients at the forefront and where continuous quality improvement is a priority.