Scaling Network Lead Entities Grantee Profile 

Network Name: Pennsylvania Association of Area Agencies on Aging (P4A) and 

Comprehensive Care Connections, IN. (C3) Community-Integrated Health Network Initiative 

Grant Goal: 

The goal of this initiative is to provide health and managed care partners coordinated access to, and delivery of consistent, highquality programs and services that address social determinants of health (SDOH). 

Grant Partners: 

• Pennsylvania’s 52 Area 

Agencies on Aging (AAAs) 

• 9 Centers for Independent 

Living (CILs) 

• Comprehensive Care 

Connections (C3) 

• Commonwealth of 

Pennsylvania Department of 

Aging 

• Pennsylvania Council on 

Independent Living 

• Commonwealth of 

Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 

Committee for Aging and 

Polder Adults Services 

Target Award: 

Population: $291,560 

Older Adults, 

underserved 

populations 

Grant Objectives: 

• Leverage the CIHN’s connective 

strengths 

• Increase the effectiveness, 

efficiency, and business acumen 

of AAAs/CILs 

• Improve data collection and 

analysis of current products and 

services to build a business case 

and value-proposition for CBOs 

• Increase the number of 

successful contractual 

relationships with health 

partners 

• Improve quality and consistency 

of services and programs across 

participating CBOs 

Grant Summary: 

The P4A, in partnership with CS and community-based organizations (CBOs) will, in the 

course of this two-year project, build a statewide Community-Integrated Health Network 

(CIHN) to serve as a single-source, value-based contracting system for Pennsylvania’s 

local AAAs and CILs. These AAAs and CILs in Pennsylvania lead sixteen Service Areas that 

also operate Pennsylvania Link to Aging and Disability Resources (PA Link), the states 

NWD System. Key Tasks within Grant include: 

• Coordinate and expand the existing statewide network of contracted CBOs with the 

capacity and expertise to deliver the products and services. 

• Perform a market scan and establish a database of 

• potential health and managed care prospect organizations. 

• Catalog contracted agencies current product and service capabilities and capacities 

that align with the results of the market scan. 

• Create a regional and statewide matrix of products and services that align with the 

intersection of our contracted agencies’ capabilities 

• Develop and implement common design standards and processes for these 

products and services across participating agencies. 

The excepted products are training, technical assistance, product development and 

standardization, cost analysis, financial strategic analysis, readiness review to support 

preparedness, credentialing, data collection, and transfer methods, dashboards for 

tracking measures, data aggregation and analysis, marketing and business case 

development, strategic planning, and organizational leadership development, 

contracting templates, and ongoing administrative support. Anticipated outcomes 

include: 

• Staff support CIHN activities 

• Competency-based trainings to all participating agencies 

• Marketing materials and data-driven value propositions to use in contract 

negotiations with potential healthcare contractors 

• Enhancement of existing cloud-based storage for sharing resources 

• Awareness and understanding across healthcare organizations of the CIHN 

• A plan for increasing Health Information Exchange connectivity 

Planned Activities for NLE enhancement will focus on: 

☒Leadership 

☒Finance 

☒Business Development 

☒Network Development and Support 

☒Network Administration 

Grant Contact: 

Rebecca May-Cole, Executive Director, P4A, rmaycole@p4a.org