SERCN Stakeholder-Defined Research Agenda: Key Priority Areas and Populations
| 1. Support health center infrastructure, sustainability, and mission to improve health outcomes. | Staff wellbeing and retention |
| Workforce development | |
| Strive for unified standard of care | |
| 2. Measure the FQHC impact on broad economic, health, and utilization outcomes. | Test meaningful outcome measures |
| Whole person outcomes | |
| Leverage socioeconomic strengths of FQHCs | |
| Explore return on investment of FQHCs | |
| 3. Prioritize work that is meaningful to patients and communities. | Focus on system navigation and care transitions |
| Link with community organizations | |
| Prioritize projects that address care of the whole person | |
| 4. Support streamlining data infrastructure in FQHCs. | Align research with existing quality measures |
| Support autonomy of FQHCs to drive unified quality measures across payors | |
| SERCN should be aware of current quality and data priorities in the network | |
| 5. Mental and behavioral health integration in the primary care safety net setting. | Specific focus on substance use disorder treatment and prevention |
| 6. Study and test care delivery models for medically and socially complex populations. | Chronic disease management |
| Self-management and adherence | |
| Standardized care to promote equity | |
| Translate lessons from practice to support evidence |
FQHC, federally qualified health center; SERCN, southeast regional clinicians network.