Grantee Name
Hudson Headwaters Health Network
Funding Area
Primary Care
Publication Date
January 2017
Grant Amount
$60,800
Grant Date:
March 2015 – December 2015
The rural communities in the Adirondack region of upstate New York’s North Country lack widespread access to comprehensive primary care services.
This lack of access can result in poor health outcomes, high rates of chronic disease, and increased emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Hudson Headwaters Health Network (HHHN), a federally qualified health center and the North Country’s largest medical group practice, and University of Vermont Health Network (UVMHN), a multihospital organization serving all of Vermont and parts of northern New York, explored partnership opportunities to improve primary care access and capacity in the region.
NYHealth awarded HHHN a grant to support the development of a partnership with UVMHN that would best serve the needs of North Country residents. The project explored the governance, financial, and legal factors and implications of the partnership for the provision of primary care to 15,000 new patients in the area, of which up to 60% were uninsured or covered by Medicaid.