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Brighter Beginnings

FQHC look-alike Urban
3,066patients served (2024)
13quality measures reported
3/13at or above the national median
1HRSA quality badges in 2025
Location
Richmond, CA 94804
Grant number
LALCS00176
Project director
Barbara McCullough

Clinical quality measures · 2024

Self-reported to HRSA on the Uniform Data System (UDS) — covers all the center's patients, every payer. "National median" and percentile are vs all health centers reporting the measure (denominator ≥ 30). How UDS differs from other programs →

Cancer screening

MeasureThis centerNational medianPercentile
Cervical cancer screening 42.9% 51.3% Below median · 33th
Breast cancer screening 42.1% 52.3% Below median · 27th
Colorectal cancer screening 23.5% 40.5% Bottom quartile · 16th

Chronic disease control

MeasureThis centerNational medianPercentile
Blood-pressure control 68.0% 66.2% Above median · 58th
Diabetes: HbA1c poor control (>9%) (lower=better) 39.1% 27.2% Bottom quartile · 9th
Statin therapy 67.3% 78.1% Bottom quartile · 12th
Aspirin/antiplatelet for heart disease · small n 59.3% 75.7% n=27

Behavioral health

MeasureThis centerNational medianPercentile
Depression screening & follow-up 35.1% 75.3% Bottom quartile · 5th
Depression remission 0.0% 12.7% Bottom quartile · 2th

Prevention & wellness

MeasureThis centerNational medianPercentile
Adult BMI screening & follow-up 36.8% 68.5% Bottom quartile · 13th
Child BMI counseling 64.9% 73.5% Below median · 37th
Tobacco screening & cessation 51.6% 85.7% Bottom quartile · 5th
HIV screening 48.3% 47.0% Above median · 51th

Maternal & oral health

MeasureThis centerNational medianPercentile
Low birth weight (lower=better) 0.0% 6.3% Top quartile · 85th

HRSA quality recognition

Health Center Quality awards, 2021–2025. Quality Leader = top 10/20/30% nationally on clinical quality; National Quality Leader = best-in-class on a clinical domain.

Advancing Health IT for Quality2025
Access Enhancer2024
Advancing Health IT for Quality2024
Advancing Health IT for Quality2023
Access Enhancer2022
Advancing Health IT for Quality2022

Closing the gaps behind these measures is exactly what population health management is for. Quaility is an AI-native population health platform built for health centers — it unifies your EHR, claims, and payer data into one record, then closes care gaps with AI and staff-led outreach, turning the annual UDS report into year-round improvement.

Population health management for health centers →
Source: HRSA Uniform Data System 2024 (H80 / look-alike file). US-government public domain, republished with provenance. Spot an error? Tell us — corrections are published, not buried.