National Evaluation Center for AHRQ's Healthcare Extension Service: State-based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement
Applications have closed and are being reviewed for those hoping to establish a National Evaluation Center to evaluate AHRQ's Healthcare Extension Service: State-based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement. The National Evaluation Center will be funded by up to $14.8 million over 5 years.
The National Evaluation Center will:
- Develop data, measures, and methods to assess the range, reach, effectiveness, and equity of Healthcare Extension Service models proposed and implemented by Healthcare Extension Cooperatives.
- Conduct a multi-method, rapid-cycle, formative and summative program evaluation of the Healthcare Extension Service, as well as the technical assistance and other services provided by the initiative’s National Coordinating Center.
The National Evaluation Center will contribute to the Healthcare Extension Service’s overall goal to accelerate dissemination and implementation of PCOR evidence. The initiative is aimed at supporting states’ efforts to improve healthcare policy, align payment incentives, advance clinical practice, and reduce healthcare disparities, especially among people who receive Medicaid, are uninsured, or are otherwise medically underserved.
The graphic below depicts how the National Evaluation Center works with the Healthcare Extension Cooperatives and the National Coordinating Center in this work.
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Please direct all inquiries to: AHRQ_HES@ahrq.hhs.gov.
