Awards and Recognition

    Providing outstanding care in our community

    As a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike (FQHC-LA), Valley Health Partners (VHP) Community Health Center delivers extraordinary care that is compassionate, accessible and affordable in a family-centered and culturally-sensitive environment. We aim to be the most accessible health center in the community we serve. Throughout this journey, we have been recognized for the outstanding care we provide to our community.

     

    Recognition From Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

    Each year, HRSA’s Health Center Program awardees and look-alikes report a core set of information, including data on patient characteristics, services provided, clinical processes, health outcomes and costs and revenues as part of a standardized reporting system known as the UDS.
     

    Health Center Quality Leader

    In 2024, VHP was again awarded multiple quality badges, including the gold-level health center quality leader – awarded to the top 1 percent-10 percent of health centers in the country.
     

    Advancing Health Information Technology for Quality

    VHP was also awarded a badge for meeting all criteria to optimize health information technology services that advance telehealth, patient engagement, interoperability and collection of social determinants of health data to increase access to care and advance quality of care.
     

    Addressing Social Risk Factors

    VHP also received a quality badge for addressing social risk factors. This is recognition for the collaborative work and coordination around social risk, from our providers and staff identifying barriers to care in the practices, to our Enabling Services team that works to address those needs directly.
     

    Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition

    Valley Health Partners received Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for four of its sites. The recognized sites are VHP Centro de Salud, VHP Children’s Clinic at 17th Street, VHP Family Health Center at 17th Street, and VHP Lehigh Valley Physicians Practice.