Data Collection Procedures

Baseline data collection occurred during each health center’s period of planning and initial training. The primary contact at each health center completed the Organizational Assessment, with assistance from the appropriate staff (e.g., medical director, finance staff). Similarly, grantees provided their health center contact with copies of the Provider Survey, which the contact distributed to providers (e.g., family physicians, general practitioners, internists, obstetricians/gynecologists, pediatricians, other specialty physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives). Providers completed the survey anonymously and returned it to the primary contact, who returned the surveys to the grantee. Initially, providers were asked to complete the survey online and some did so, but there was a strong preference for completing it on paper.