Strengthening Healthcare along the Gulf Coast: The Gulf Region Health Outreach Program’s Primary Care Capacity Project
This report highlights the key strategies, activities, and outcomes of the Primary Care Capacity Project (PCCP), one of four integrated Gulf Region Health Outreach Program (GRHOP) projects created and funded as part of the Deepwater Horizon Medical Benefits Class Action Settlement. From 2012 to 2018, the PCCP was designed and implemented by the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) in close partnership with the GRHOP Coordinating Committee and impacted communities in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Using a multidisciplinary public health systems approach, the PCCP expanded long-term access to high-quality, integrated, sustainable, and community-based primary care with linkages to mental and behavioral health, and environmental and occupational health services.