Valley Health Partners Community Health Center is recognized as a federally qualified health center look-alike, offering individuals and families affordable health care, with or without health insurance. This designation from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration is recognition of the comprehensive health care services provided to the community by VHP.

“The heart of this new organization is to provide care for our community’s most vulnerable, not only partnering with patients but being led by them as they achieve health and wellness,” says Veronica Gonzalez, Chief Executive Officer, VHP.

The path to FQHC Look-Alike status for VHP was made possible by Lehigh Valley Health Network’s support and transition of nine community clinics to VHP in 2020. These clinics are primarily located on the campus of Lehigh Valley Hospital–17th Street.

The clinics include care for children who are well, sick or have special needs including behavioral health, ADHD, asthma, obesity and more; comprehensive health care for women and adolescent girls, including specialists who help with high-risk pregnancies, depression and more, family medicine, access for veterans and homeless.

An FQHC Look-Alike receives enhanced reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid, which allows clinics to offer whole-person care and creates opportunities to look beyond medical care, focusing on social determinants of health and other underlying causes of poor health.

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