Assessments and Audits for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)

FQHC IT provides customized assessments and audits exclusively for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Look-Alikes, and Community Health Centers across the United States. Our assessment portfolio includes the HIPAA Security Risk Assessment (SRA), the AI Efficiency Assessment, the Internal IT and Operations Audit, plus customized engagements covering compliance, governance, vendor risk, disaster recovery, business continuity, 340B IT controls, UDS data integrity, PCMH operational requirements, and HIPAA 2.0 readiness. Every assessment is tailored to each FQHC's size, scope, and goals.

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Assessments & Audits for FQHCs

100% for Federally Qualified Health Centers. Built around how you actually run.

Customized for your specific requirements and goals. Designed to find what nobody else is looking for.

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The question you don't say out loud
the one that wakes you up at 2 AM

What's really going on inside our Health Center?

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Is this what we actually built — or just what's happening because nobody's giving real direction and it's become a free-for-all?

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Are we secure, compliant, efficient, and well-run — or have I just been told we are?

And if I took a deeper look right now — without anyone editing the truth before it reaches me — would I be terrified by what I'd find? How scared should I actually be?

If any of this sounds like the voice inside your own head — you're in exactly the right place.

You're not technical. You never claimed to be.

You're a CEO. A COO. A CFO. A Health Center leader of a mission-driven organization with 10+ departments, 100+ systems and vendors, navigating UDS, PCMH, 340B, HRSA, FTCA, HIPAA 2.0, and everything in between — all while trying to keep the lights on with budget cuts at every corner.

You hired the people. You signed the vendor contracts. You approved the policies. You sat through the trainings. You trusted that the people you pay are doing what they're supposed to be doing.

But quietly, in the back of your mind: you don't actually know what's happening down there.

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You don't know if your systems are really secure — or just "they said they were."

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You don't know if your data is actually backed up — or just "they told us it is."

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You don't know if your team is really following procedure — or just saying yes in meetings.

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You don't know if your money is being spent right — or wasted on tools nobody uses.

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You don't know if AI is something you should already have — or something that doesn't apply yet.

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You don't know if your IT person is a rockstar — or one resignation from disaster.

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You don't know if the policy binder on the shelf reflects how anything actually works.

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You don't know if anyone is really steering security, technology, and AI — or if everyone's busy doing their piece while the whole thing quietly drifts.

You see the headlines

Health Centers hit by ransomware. State fines in the millions. AI everywhere. Staff turnover in waves. Carriers denying claims that used to pay. Boards asking harder questions. Funders wanting more proof.

And underneath all of it, the question you can't shake

"Is anyone actually watching this — or just collecting a paycheck?"

"Is anyone actually protecting our patients — or just managing the optics?"

"Am I going to be the leader who finds this and fixes it — or the one whose name is on the breach notification letter?"

You're not paranoid. You're paying attention.

And the worst part? Nobody has ever sat with you, in plain English, and shown you what's really happening.

Every quarter, you're carrying more weight while having less visibility into the things that could break you. You wouldn't be the first leader to feel this. You won't be the last.

You already know the honest answer to most of those questions.
That's why you're here.

What we do

We are FQHC Specialists.

We're not a software company. Not a license reseller. Not a vendor pitching a tool.

We perform the full range of customized assessments and audits that tell you what's actually happening inside your Health Center, across every function and every system.

Security Efficiency Compliance Governance Operations Technology AI Readiness

We tailor every engagement to your size, scope, and goals — because no two FQHCs are the same.

Our three core assessments

Plus customized assessments — built around what your Health Center actually needs.

How an assessment works

From first conversation to lasting change — in four steps.

No mystery. No 200-page report dropped on your desk. A clear, collaborative process designed around how your Health Center actually operates.

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Discover

A 30-minute conversation. We learn your Health Center. You learn what's possible.

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Diagnose

We sit with your teams, watch how work actually happens, and document every gap, risk, and opportunity.

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Deliver

A plain-English roadmap with prioritized actions, financial impact, and clear ownership across every department.

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Implement

We don't hand the report off. We stay in the trenches with your team until things are actually fixed.

The fears keeping you up at night

You're not alone. Every FQHC leader is asking these.

Out loud, or in the back of their mind. We've heard every one of them.

The ones you'll say at the leadership meeting:

"If our IT Director walked out, would anyone else be able to keep everything running — or what would crash first?"

"If we got hit with ransomware, how quickly would we be back up? When was the last time our backup and disaster recovery systems were tested for worst-case scenarios? Would our cyber insurance actually pay?"

"Are our reports and data actually right — or just close enough?"

"Are we leaving real money on the table — money that should go to patients, not paperwork?"

"If we got audited tomorrow, would we pass?"

the deeper ones you don't say to anyone:

"Am I the only one who sees how fragile this all is?"

"If something catastrophic happens on my watch, can I live with what it does to this community?"

"Have I been the leader this Health Center actually needed — or just the one keeping it on life support?"

"What does my board not know yet that they'll find out the hard way?"

"If I left tomorrow, would anything I built survive?"

"Am I building a Health Center — or just delaying its collapse?"

We've heard every one of these. Out loud. From leaders just like you.

These aren't unique to you. They're universal. They're not signs of weakness — they're signs you're paying attention.

They are also fixable. That's why we exist.

What we find in every Health Center we walk into

You don't have a tech problem. You don't have a compliance problem. You don't have an efficiency problem.

You have a departments-running-on-duct-tape problem.

Every function has its own version of the same story:

Medical & Dental
Providers staying late charting. Documentation eating evenings, weekends, marriages. Hours of clinical time that should be patient time.
Behavioral Health
Referrals lost in inboxes. No-shows tracked manually. Crisis protocols nobody's rehearsed. Privacy controls inconsistent across teams.
Pharmacy & 340B
Five-figure savings nobody has time to maximize. Reconciliation by hand. Inventory across three systems. One person who knows how it all works.
Billing & Revenue
Denials piling up. Appeals slipping past deadline. Claims with preventable errors. Money you've already earned, sitting uncollected.
Front Desk
Eligibility checks by hand. Reminders made by a person who could be helping patients. Intake typed three times into three systems.
Compliance & UDS
HRSA reports built from spreadsheets nobody else can read. UDS data assembled last-minute. A compliance officer one resignation away from chaos.
HR & Workforce
Onboarding by checklist three years stale. Credentialing in spreadsheets. Exit processes nobody owns. The retention crisis nobody has time to address.
Finance & Ops
Budgets in Excel. Vendor contracts in someone's email. Grant deadlines on a Post-it. Financial decisions made on numbers nobody fully trusts.
IT & Cybersecurity
Passwords in a spreadsheet. Backups untested. Patches behind. Logs nobody reviews. A breach that's not a question of if — but when.
Quality & PCMH
Quality measures pulled together at 11pm the night before. PCMH evidence scattered across systems. Numbers that get reported but nobody fully trusts.
Vendors & Partners
Contracts nobody's read in years. Access nobody tracks. EHR, billing, MSP, pharmacy — where their weaknesses become your liability.
Executive & Board
Board packets built at midnight. KPIs assembled manually. Grant reports written from scratch. Your nights, your weekends, your strategic work never gets done.
  • Manual work that should be automated
  • Knowledge held by one person nobody could replace
  • Processes that look documented but aren't
  • Controls that exist on paper but not in practice
  • Numbers that get reported but nobody fully trusts
  • Risks that everyone senses but nobody owns

We see all of it. In every department. In every Health Center.

Our assessments diagnose each function specifically — what's broken, what it's costing you, and what to do about it.

Most consultants come in and ask you to explain. We come in and tell you what we're going to find — and then we find it.

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The weight you're carrying

You feel all of this. Every budget meeting. Every board update. Every late-night phone call.

You answer to the board when something breaks. To HRSA when documentation falls short. To your patients and community when a site closes for a day. To your team when you can't give them the raises they deserve. To your family when you're working another Saturday.

And you do it on top of being CEO, CFO, head of HR, chief of compliance, head fundraiser, and crisis manager — often in the same week.

You don't need another vendor. You don't need another binder. You need someone who actually sees what you're carrying — and can help you put some of it down.

How we understand you

Better than most consultants ever will.

This is all we do. And we've done it for 20+ years.

When we walk through your Health Center, we're not learning. We're recognizing.

Most consultants come in and ask you to explain. We know exactly what to look for — and then we find it.

The dream we help you reach

Underneath the firefighting, every FQHC leader wants the same things.

Not a fantasy. An operating model. And the one FQHCs will need to survive the next decade.

A Health Center that runs without you dragging the truck uphill every day

A team thriving — not just surviving

Providers who finish notes when they finish patients. And go home.

Numbers you can trust. Reports that build themselves. Compliance running in the background.

Savings redirected to a new site, to raises, to the behavioral health program your community is begging for

An organization your community is proud of, a workforce that stays, a mission you're advancing — not defending

A legacy you'd be proud to hand off

Three weeks off without a single panicked phone call

That's not a fantasy.

That's an operating model.

We know how to get you there.

FQHC team collaborating on operational and compliance improvements

Imagine running your Health Center with real direction — for the first time.

That's not a luxury anymore. That's what survival looks like.

What you'll walk away with

Not slides. Not a vendor pitch.

A plain-English document your board, funders, HRSA Project Officer, CFO, and IT Director can all use.

  • 01

    Executive Summary

    What we found, what it's costing, what it could be saving.

  • 02

    Department-by-Department Findings

    Quantified in real dollars and real hours.

  • 03

    Prioritized Roadmap

    What to fix first, based on risk and ROI.

  • 04

    Governance & Accountability Plan

    Who owns what, who reports on what.

  • 05

    Compliance Alignment

    HIPAA, HIPAA 2.0, HRSA, FTCA, OCR, UDS — unified.

  • 06

    AI & Automation Transformations

    FQHC-specific, for every department.

  • 07

    Financial Impact Model

    Projected savings and risk reduction over 12, 24, 36 months.

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    Implementation Support

    We don't hand it off. We get it done with you.

A glimpse inside

This is what real clarity looks like.

Not 200 pages of jargon. Not a vendor pitch dressed up as a report. A clean, plain-English document your board can act on Monday — with quantified findings, prioritized roadmap, and the financial impact already modeled.

How we're different

What you've gotten before — and what you'll get from us.

Other consultants drop a report and disappear. We stay until it's fixed.
Other firms sell software, tools, and contracts. We implement solutions that solve your problems.
Other auditors check boxes. We diagnose what's actually broken.
Other vendors learn your Health Center as they go. We've already been there a hundred times.
Ready to see what's really under the hood?

Most FQHCs think they have a handle on where they stand. Within weeks, every single one finds something that changes their mind.

Book a 30-minute conversation. No pitch. No pressure. Just an honest look at where your Health Center actually stands — and which assessment is the right place to start.

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We only work with FQHCs and Health Centers.

That's our specialty.That's our mission.