AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grant Profiles

Short profiles summarizing key aspects of each project and success stories highlighting unique accomplishments of each grant in its partner States.

Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) grants were funded to State-level initiatives that had demonstrated success in providing a quality improvement infrastructure for primary care, specifically through the use of primary care extension agents. Each of the four "model States" developed collaborations with three or four "partner States" to share the successful infrastructure they had developed. In total, 17 States worked together to build a support system to assist primary care practices with their transformation efforts. The following materials have been developed to describe these efforts. Short profiles summarizing key aspects of each project and success stories highlighting unique accomplishments of each grant in its partner States.

Project Profiles

Each grant title below links to a short profile about the project. The profiles include an overview of the efforts to spread primary care transformation within the model State, efforts to disseminate the model in partner States, the main lessons learned from these efforts, and implications for others.

North Carolina IMPaCT: Advancing and Spreading Primary Care Transformation (PDF; 584 KB) | Darren DeWalt, MD, and Mark Holmes, PhD; University of North Carolina

PA Spread: Pennsylvania Spreading Primary Care Enhanced Delivery Infrastructure (PDF; 561 KB) | Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD, FACP, and Alan Adelman, MD, MS; Pennsylvania State University Hershey College of Medicine

HERO: New Mexico’s Health Extension as a Model for Primary Care Transformation (PDF; 562 KB) | Arthur Kaufman, MD; University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Office for Community Health

Primary Care Extension in Oklahoma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Dissemination and Implementation (PDF; 601 KB) | James W. Mold, MD, MPH; University of Oklahoma Health Sciences

Success Stories

Each title listed below links to a short brief describing how an IMPaCT model State successfully helped to support implementation and dissemination of primary care transformation efforts in an IMPaCT partner State.

North Carolina IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care Transformation in Idaho (PDF; 234 KB)

Pennsylvania IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care Transformation in New York (PDF; 369 KB)

New Mexico IMPaCT: Catalyzing Community Health Transformation in Kansas (PDF; 380 KB)

Oklahoma IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care Transformation in Colorado (PDF; 368 KB)