ClinicNet strengthens Colorado’s health care safety net by empowering organizations that serve vulnerable populations.

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ClinicNet Overview

What is ClinicNet?

ClinicNet is a Colorado non-profit corporation committed to strengthening Colorado’s safety net by empowering organizations that provide health care to vulnerable populations.

Who does ClinicNet serve?

Non-federally qualified clinics that provide care to underserved Coloradoans.

Affiliated Clinics

ClinicNet clinics are diverse in size, philosophy, services offered and populations served.   Clinics include Colorado’s residency training programs, clinics in large metropolitan areas along the front range and those in rural and mountain communities. 

Participating Organizations

Several organizations provide significant support in the form of meeting space, hosting of Board meetings and representatives who serve on ClinicNet’s Board of Directors.  

Those organizations include:

• Colorado Association of Family Medicine

• Colorado Association for School-Based Health Care

• Colorado Commission on Family Medicine

• Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC)

• COPIC Companies

• St. Anthony Central Hospital

• Clínica Tepeyac

• Doctors Care

• Inner City Health Center

• Marillac Clinic

• SET Family Medical Clinics

Project Collaborators

ClinicNet values its relationships with all organizations committed to improving the delivery of health care to Colorado’s vulnerable populations.  ClinicNet works with the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) to identify, collect and report appropriate data about the Safety Net.  A number of ClinicNet clinics participate in the Colorado Colorectal Screening Program and collaborate with the Colorado Colorectal Cancer Task Force (a member of the larger efforts of the Colorado Cancer Coalition) in support of their plan to reduce cancer mortality and to influence behaviors that relate to cancer mortality throughout Colorado.

ClinicNet’s History

• 1998: Service coalition formed of non-federally qualified safety net clinics. Led by a volunteer Steering Committee. Staffed by a part-time Director and funded by multiple small grants from Organizational Supporters.

• 1998 – 2006: Longstanding focus on quantifying the amount of care delivered by non-federally qualified clinics and aggregating that data.

• 2006: Steering Committee identified the need to strengthen the coalition.

• March 2007: ClinicNet incorporated as a Colorado nonprofit corporation governed by a board of directors.

• April 2007: Application submitted for IRS 501(c)(3) status. Grant awarded by The Colorado Health Foundation.

• June 2007: Executive Director hired.

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