Health Choice Network of Florida (HCN)

MANAGED CARE - This program provides health care management to the HMO assigned members of centers to ensure proper utilization of health care in the managed care environment. This program includes credentialing, centralized referrals for center HMO contracts, provider relations, and management of at-risk contracts. The managed care unit also provides support to shared clinical committee collaborative services.

HEALTH CARE PREVENTION INITIATIVES - The health care prevention initiatives consist primarily of three separate projects. The Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Project addresses the disproportionate burden of cancer in low-income African American and Hispanic communities served by the centers. These activities include cancer prevention, education, and early detection projects that address breast and cervical cancer screening disparities. Another health care prevention initiative, Care Management Medical Home Center ("CMMHC"), provides a system designed to support the core elements necessary to deliver effective chronic disease care management in a primary care setting. CMMHC will initially focus on improving care for patients with diabetes. The Nurse Family Partnership Program ("NFPP") provides first-time mothers from low-income households the care and support needed to have healthy pregnancies. NFPP administers this program by utilizing registered nurses.

FISCAL/MIS INTEGRATION - This program provides fiscal and management information system services for member centers. Primary services include operating a centralized MIS department (hardware and software) and sharing of chief financial officer and chief information officer services through integrated activities of the member centers' finance and IT departments.