Our Region

Includes Arlington County, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Prince William County, the City of Alexandria, and the District of Columbia.

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Ties, our e-newsletter, will link readers to information about regional health issues, policy and practice innovations in addressing the health service needs of low income populations, resources, and upcoming events. We hope it will stimulate discussion, encourage innovation, inform policy, and leverage lessons learned for the benefit of the region.

About RPCC

RPCC is a learning community where partners bring innovative ideas for how primary care can improve the health of low income people in our region.  An active collaboration of health philanthropies and primary care provider coalitions serving the region's low-income residents in Washington DC, Northern Virginia, and Suburban Maryland, RPCC crosses borders to learn, try out new ideas, and share knowledge about what works and what doesn’t for ensuring that area residents get high quality primary health care.

  With support from local and corporate funders, and housed at the Consumer Health Foundation, RPCC is committed  to advancing health equity in the region and creating s community-based primary care systems  that provides low-income uninsured people in our region with the best health care available...Read More

News + Events

Northern Virginia Health Services Coalition launches NOVA Specialty Access, a program to provide access to specialty care for safety net clinic patients.

The Northern Virginia Health Foundation’s new oral health report finds more than a third of people in families making less than $40,000 per year have fair or poor oral health—five times as many as those making more than $40,000 a year.

The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry features a Montgomery Cares behavioral health pilot program designed to treat commonly occurring mental health disorders in primary care clinics serving low-income and uninsured people.

October 27: DCPCA 2011 Annual Meeting featured discussions around health reform, integrated systems of primary care, community health workers, and more.

December 9: Regional HIV/AIDS Forum hosted by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and RPCC.

January 12: Consumer Health Foundation Annual Meeting: Connecting Communities: Advancing Regional Solutions for Health Equity. Also read the Consumer Health Foundation 2012 Annual Report: Building the Case for Regionalism.