CCHS Consulting

This is what we do:

Assess

Plan/Strategize
Implement
Evaluate

We have expertise and experience in:

People (staff) management (see our people management pages)
Behavioral health / primary care integration
340B pharmacy development and operation
State / CHC partnerships
Community relations
Customer/patient service
Communications
and more

This is how we do it

Assessment
It's one thing to have a good idea of what is needed, what is right, or what is wrong and then make a plan to improve on the situation - It's another to have some valid basis for that idea. That's what assessment does - it takes much of the guessing out of identification of issues.

There are many things for which CCHS assessments can be used. All of them attempt to identify targets for projects or programs:
CCHS has been doing assessments since 1992. These assessments have looked at all the issues above and have resulted in strategic plans, grants , and other program development and evaluation needs. With his experience as an award winning journalist, Phil Schenk understands how to ask the right questions of the right people, listen to the answers, ask the right follow-up questions, analyze the answers from many participants and put the results into forms that can be used to develop programs.

Here's what we say to those who identify needs by
intuition, incomplete information, or "seat of the pants" approaches:

"Stop Guessing and Start Assessing"

Planning and Strategizing
Once an assessment has shown what the issues are to be addressed, it's time for planning and strategizing to deal with them. CCHS advocates group process in developing strategies and we excel at facilitating such processes. We also excel at coming up with creative programs to meet identified needs, but we believe that the people who will be doing the program should be the ones to develop the plans and we are great at helping make that process happen. Our expertise and experience in special programs such as pharmacy and behavioral health integration, operational aspects of CHC work such as customer service and communications, community work and more give us the background to help CHCs plan the right programs from the start. In addition, CCHS can draw on successful experience in grant writing to help make plans into realities.

After taking a careful, objective look at a situation, the process of developing plans to deal with issues should start out of the box and then see how to make the box fit, if possible. This process should be creative and visionary. That's why you want 
CCHS leading your planning and strategizing process.


Implementation

It is important to note that CCHS has experience and expertise in various special aspects of community health center programming, services and operations. For example, we can provide experienced consultants in 340B pharmacy development and operation, behavioral health/primary care integration, customer/patient service, management coaching, marketing, community relations, press relations, state programs utilizing CHCs, communications, and more. When we work with a client to take a project to the implementation phase, we have the experience to make it work.

Evaluation

CCHS knows the importance of evaluation in program and grant management. We can provide objective assessment and analysis based evaluation services for existing projects or projects in which we have already been involved. Again, the experience and expertise on which CCHS draws makes our services stand out.

info@cchsconsulting.com
304-542-2116

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