Cook County Health RFP: Strengthen Your CountyCare Care Management and Value-Based Care Response
Cook County Health is seeking provider-based partners that can improve quality, integrate care management with providers, use data effectively, build reliable workflows and perform under value-based accountability. Elevation Health Partners (EHP) brings the implementation, quality, data and workforce capabilities that help prime partners deliver those requirements consistently across sites. We can help prime partners strengthen the September 10 response and build the provider-level implementation infrastructure CCH will expect after award.
RFP H26-25-081 | Proposal due September 10, 2026 | View CountyCare RFP H26-25-081
NO-COST PROPOSAL SUPPORT
If your organization intends to include EHP as an implementation subcontractor, we can lead proposal drafting and coordination at no charge. Your team provides and approves prime-specific clinical, financial, compliance and organizational information; EHP can organize the response, draft narrative sections, map capabilities to requirements and help drive the submission to completion.
Where EHP Can Strengthen the CountyCare Model
HEDIS & Quality Performance
Root-cause and barrier analysis; care-gap workflows; population outreach; PDSA; scorecards; standardization and spread.
EHR, Data & Care-Gap Infrastructure
EHR optimization; supplemental-data workflows; data reconciliation; dashboards; clinical decision support; interoperability and provider adoption.
Behavioral Health & Complex Care
Collaborative Care implementation; screening/follow-up; psychiatric consultation workflows; SUD pathways; care coordination; EHR and population-health integration.
Care Management Implementation
Readiness assessments; care-team roles; enrollment and follow-up workflows; transitions of care; policies, playbooks and sustainable standard work.
Provider & Care-Team Workforce
Training and coaching in quality improvement, HEDIS, team-based care, motivational interviewing, workflow adoption and train-the-trainer models.
Value-Based Care Implementation
VBC readiness; quality incentives; utilization improvement; provider performance management; alternative-payment readiness; sustainability and spread.
Relevant Experience for Cook County Health and CountyCare
Los Angeles Practice Transformation Network
EHP served as lead practice transformation coaching firm. 21of 23 health centers completed all transformation phases; clinical quality improvement ranged 5%–33%; 200+ trainings were delivered; and the initiative reported more than $150M in savings associated with reduced ED/hospital utilization.
Michigan Community Health Network – HIPP
Seven FQHCs received direct coaching with network-level support across the CIN. Comparable measures improved 4.6%–17.9% (~11% average), and HIPP centers finished above non-HIPP centers on five of six active measures.
Health Net / Centene QIPM & PQCI
EHP used payer/practice data, barrier analysis and measure-specific coaching across a large Medicaid provider network. PQCI documented 4,047 performance barriers; 57% were workflow-related and 62% of Medi-Cal measure observations improved year over year.
Health Net Equity & Practice Transformation
EHP supported large-scale transformation across data, access, care teams, behavioral/social health, disparity reduction and VBC readiness. By July 2026, coached practices were completing 30% more transformation milestones than practices without regular coaching.
Additional Scale & Experience
10 years of HCCN transformation support, serving 27–47 community health centers at a time.
1,400+ providers supported through large-scale EHR adoption and optimization initiatives.
20+ years of health information technology experience spanning EHRs, interoperability, population health and quality reporting.
Multi-year integrated behavioral health and Collaborative Care implementation across 16+ community health center sites.
50+ customized Medicaid technical-assistance engagements with providers and community-serving organizations.
How EHP Fits
The prime partner retains clinical responsibility, member attribution, required licensure/accreditation, care-management technology, contractual compliance and financial-risk obligations.
EHP strengthens the implementation layer: proposal development, provider transformation, HEDIS improvement, care-management workflows, EHR/data optimization, workforce training, behavioral-health integration, transitions of care, performance management, playbooks and network-level spread.
Preparing a Response to H26-25-081?
EHP can mobilize now to support proposal development and, if awarded, help operationalize the model across participating providers.