Workshop presentation from Community Health Connections 2019, in Ottawa (June 13, 2019).

1. Building a National Agenda for
CHC Leadership on Primary Care
and Engaging CHC Healthcare
Providers as Advocates

2. Dr. Daniel Miller
Chief of Clinical Integration and Graduate Medical Education,
Hudson River HealthCare and Board Member, US National
Association of Community Health Centres (Tarrytown, NY)
Cliff Ledwos
Director of Primary Care, Access Alliance Multicultural Health and
Community Services (Toronto, ON)
Hoda Mankal
Nurse Practitioner, Carlington Community Health Centre (Ottawa,
ON)

3. • 30 min presentation by Dr. Miller on experiences
from U.S. CHCs and associations engaging and
supporting clinicians around leadership & advocacy
• 30 min moderated discussion with all three panelists
• Goals:
• Identify challenges and opportunities for engaging CHC
clinicians beyond service delivery
• Learn from experiences and successes in the U.S.
• Identify opportunities for action and progress at individual
CHCs and CHC associations in Canada

4. The Community
Health Center
Movement
A Clinician’s
Perspective
Daniel Miller, MD
June 2019

5. The Health Cente
The CHC Movement
WHY?
Who Are
We?
What Is It
That We
Do?

6. The Health Cente
Drs. Jack Geiger & Count Gibson

7. Dr. Robert Smith

8. The Struggle Continues
National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 66, No. 4, August 14, 2017

9. The Struggle Continues
Changes in race- and ethnicity-adjusted life expectancy by income group, 2001 to
2014. JAMA. 2016 April 26; 315(16): 1750–1766. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.4226.

10. The Health Cente

11. The Health Cente
What Is It That We Do?

12. The Health Cente
CHCs Care for People
✚ Individuals and Populations
✚ Excellent Quality
✚ Respect and Dignity
✚ Justice and Equity
✚ Sustainable
 Finance
 Personal
 Operational
✚ We Evolve and We Improve

13. The Health Cente
We Are Better, Stronger Together

14. The Health Cente
NACHC Evolution
✚ We Are Better Together
✚ Committees
✚ Board of Directors

15. The Health Cente
NACHC Value Transformation
Framework

16. The Health Center
Social Drivers of Health

17. The Health Cente
The Most Important Thing is to Keep
The Most Important Thing
The Most Important Thing
Donald Coduto

18. Justice
Access
Equity Poverty
RacismMovementPatient

19. “The opposite of poverty is not wealth;
the opposite of poverty is justice.”

21. Thank You
Daniel Miller, MD
Chief, Clinical Integration & GME
Hudson River HealthCare, Inc.
dmiller@hrhcare.org