Get Started with Community-Focused Care Accreditation

Address non-clinical barriers preventing your population/community from experiencing their best health.

Community-Focused Care Accreditation helps organizations cultivate high-impact, community-based partnerships to connect members/patients to non-medical or social needs resources to support their best possible health.

Steps to Get Started

How Community-Focused Care Accreditation benefits your organization:

  • Develop and sustain community partnerships. Implement strategies to help build partnerships with community-based organizations.
  • Understand the unique needs of your community. Use data to identify and address non-medical drivers (e.g., upstream drivers, social needs, SDOH) for members/patients and the broader community.
  • Apply best practices for engaging community-based organizations. Implement sustainable practices for connecting patients/members to social needs resources, and tracking the impact of interventions.
  • Measure and evaluate the success of social needs screening and intervention programs. Increase the effectiveness of interventions to improve return on investment.

To learn more about Community-Focused Care Accreditation, submit the form and an NCQA program expert will be in touch.