Common Contracts

Collaboration Between State Primary Care Offices and State Offices of Minority Health

June 9th, 2014

• Filed
  June 9th, 2014

State primary care offices (PCOs) and state offices of minority health (OMHs) are federally funded programs located within state and territorial health departments. PCOs are supported by an HHS and HRSA program, Cooperative Agreements to States/Territories for the Coordination and Development of Primary Care Offices.1 OMHs are supported by the HHS Office of the Secretary, Office of Public Health and Science, and OMH’s State Partnership Grant Program to Improve Minority Health.2 The objective of the PCO program is to coordinate and oversee local, state, and federal primary care service delivery and workforce issues to meet the needs of medically underserved populations.i The objective of the OMH program is to facilitate the improvement of minority health and eliminate health disparities through the development of partnerships with state and territorial offices of minority health.ii‌