Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center Earns Silver Quality Leader Award from Federal Health Resources and Services Administration
CS-HCC Also Earns HRSA Recognition for High Value Care and Advancing Health Information Technology
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center (CS-HHC), Connecticut’s first federally funded health center, has earned three 2025 Community Health Quality Recognition (CHQR) awards from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The awards were led by the federal agency’s Silver Badge, which denotes that CS-HHC achieved clinical outcomes that placed the New Haven-based community health center in the top 11%-20% of all community health centers nationally. There are approximately 1,500 health centers supported by HRSA nationwide, serving approximately 32.4 million people last year - the most patients ever served in the Health Center Program’s 60-year history. Only 147 community health centers across the country earned the HRSA’s Silver Badge.
In addition, CS-HHC earned Community Health Quality Recognition badges in two other key categories: High-Value Care and Advancing Health Information Technology for Quality.
A year ago, CS-HHC earned the Bronze level Health Center Quality Leader award, this year CS-HHC received the higher level Silver recognition badge.
It is the fifth consecutive year that CS-HHC has earned the Advancing Health Information Technology badge.
The High-Value Care badge, awarded by HRSA for the first time this year, recognizes improvements in clinical quality while minimizing costs. Criteria to earn the Advancing Health Information Technology (HIT) for Quality badge include offering telehealth services, exchanging clinical information online with key providers' health care settings, engaging patients through HIT, and collecting data on patient health-related needs. CS-HHC is one of only two community health centers in Connecticut to earn that recognition.
“These awards reaffirm and reflect our continued devotion to ensuring that CS-HHC patients receive services of the highest quality. We are grateful for HRSA’s acknowledgement and remain steadfastly committed to maintaining the highest level of comprehensive healthcare services,” said Michael R. Taylor, CS-HHC Chief Executive Officer.
HRSA awards badges to federally qualified health centers nationally, based on the Uniform Data System (UDS). The UDS provides information about the performance and operation of centers that deliver services to underserved communities and vulnerable populations.
About Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center
The Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center is the oldest and among the largest community Health Centers in Connecticut. The Center provides integrated medical, dental and behavioral health solutions throughout the Greater New Haven area and the Lower Naugatuck Valley with the goal of improving the health status of patients and the community at large. The Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center has been a leader in community healthcare innovation for over 55 years. In recent years, individuals from 143 of Connecticut’s 169 towns and cities have utilized the healthcare services of CS-HHC. Learn more at www.cornellscott.org.
About HRSA
The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, supports equitable health care for the nation’s highest-need communities. Its programs support people with low incomes, people with HIV, pregnant people, children, parents, rural communities, transplant patients, and the health workforce. Health centers have been a key part of the nation’s health care system for nearly 60 years. They are in all U.S. states, territories, and the District of Columbia. In 2024, health centers served more than 32 million people.
