Affinia Healthcare Nationally Recognized for Healthcare Quality and Access   

Affinia Healthcare honored for their dedication to providing high-quality and accessible healthcare, receiving national recognition in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, MO – Affinia Healthcare has earned national recognition for providing high quality healthcare to the St. Louis community. 

     The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently awarded Affinia Healthcare with badges from the Community Health Quality Recognition (CHQR) in three categories: Advancing Health Information Technology for Quality, Addressing Social Risk Factors, and Patient Centered Medical Home.   

     The CHQR badges recognize health center program awardees and look-alikes (LALs) that have made notable achievements in the areas of access, quality, health equity, health information technology, social risk factors screening, and COVID-19 public health emergency response using Uniform Data System (UDS) data from the most recent reporting period.    

     “Our teams have diligently worked to ensure that we incorporate quality standards in all areas of our operations and care. It is a requirement for great healthcare and our patients deserve it,” said Dr. Kendra Holmes, Affinia Healthcare President & CEO. “A special thank you to our Quality Department who helps lead these efforts and ensure we are meeting goals for high-quality service and care.”  

       The recognitions were earned based on the following criteria for each category:  

 Advancing Health Information Technology for Quality: Meets all criteria to optimize HIT services that advance telehealth, patient engagement, interoperability, and collection of social determinants of health data to increase access to care and advance quality of care.  

Addressing Social Risk Factors: Recognizes health centers that are screening for social risk factors impacting patient health and are increasing access to enabling services.  

Patient Centered Medical Home: PCMH recognition received from an independent, national review body demonstrates a health center’s commitment to providing high quality health care services and improving patient experiences, health outcomes, and safety. These sites have been recognized since 2014 and must maintain annual recognition status through continuously demonstrating improvements in the coordination of patient care, care transition, clinical measure performance, just to name a few standards. 

About Affinia Healthcare 

Affinia Healthcare is a dynamic and transformative health system, providing affordable primary and preventive health care located in St. Louis, Missouri. Affinia Healthcare is a community health center, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and is nationally accredited through The Joint Commission and NCQA organizations. Affinia Healthcare serves over 43,700 people per year, of whom more than 90 percent have incomes under 100 percent of the federal poverty level. Approximately 70 percent of patients served are Black or African American, 11 percent are Hispanic/Latinx, and over 4,000 are un-housed.   

The Affinia Healthcare Foundation supports the healthcare system by providing needed funding for the most vulnerable and disenfranchised members of our community. To ensure all in the community are able to take advantage of these services, the Foundation provides funding which is made available by the generous support of individual and corporate  donors. To make a donation to the Affinia Healthcare Foundation, visit www.affiniahealthcare.org/donate. 

For more information about Affinia Healthcare, call 314-814-8700, or visit www.affiniahealthcare.org.