Community Care Network Of Virginia, Inc.

Clinical Excellence

Community Care Network of Virginia sponsors a statewide clinical performance improvement program for Virginia community health centers via a provider-led Network Medical Management Committee, which dates to 1999.  The Network Medical Management program was established to promote consistent, high-quality care at practice sites across the Network  The work of this statewide provider committee includes:

  • development of network-wide Clinical Practice Guidelines for high risk diagnoses;
  • dissemination, education and training to network provider staff on guideline principles and scientific evidence supporting “best practices”;
  • data collection to determine compliance with evidence-based guidelines;
  • targeted quality improvement interventions based on results of data collection; and
  • regular updating of the Clinical Practice Guidelines to ensure compliance with the most up-to-date scientific evidence and treatment recommendations

Clinical Practice Guidelines have been created for diabetes, pre-diabetes and for four cardiovascular conditions (hypertension, cholesterol, stroke and obesity).  Network treatment goals have been established for each condition, and results of quality monitoring activities are compared with Network-wide treatment goals. 

Network providers representing each geographic region of Virginia, as well as small and large multiple-site health centers are actively involved in all aspects of this clinical quality improvement effort.  Providers are responsible for the creation of the evidence-based guidelines, for the prioritization of clinical quality improvement efforts and for the analysis of clinical quality improvement data.  The work of the members of this provider committee is supported by the CCNV Quality Improvement Committee and the CCNV Board of Directors.

Collection of data to measure compliance with the adopted Network treatment guidelines plays an important role in measuring success of both the adoption of evidence-based guidelines and any targeted quality improvement intervention deployed as a result of data analysis.

Network Clinical Practice Guidelines:

  • Diabetes Clinical Practice Guideline – sign-in only
  • Pre-Diabetes Clinical Practice Guideline – sign-in only
  • Stroke Clinical Practice Guideline – sign in only
  • Hypertension Clinical Practice Guideline – sign-in only
  • Cholesterol Clinical Practice Guideline – sign-in only
  • Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline – sign-in only
Community Care Network Of Virginia, Inc.