Lower Lights Health Selected as the 2025 OCHIN Impact Award Winner for Transforming Patient Health and Well-Being Through Its Partnership With AndHealth
COLUMBUS, OH – Lower Lights Health (LLCHC) was honored this week as the 2025 OCHIN Impact Award Winner for Transforming Patient Health and Well-being at the 2025 OCHIN Member Learning Forum in Nashville, TN.
The OCHIN Learning Forum is an annual healthcare enrichment event that features the annual Impact Awards, which recognize four healthcare leaders that have used tools and insights in transformative ways to improve the health and well-being of their patients, providers, and communities. Lower Lights Health was selected as a 2025 winner for its partnership with AndHealth to offer specialty care and specialty pharmacy services to their patients. The partnership leverages OCHIN Epic to create a referral and provider communication pathway between the two organizations.
Lower Lights Health has been at the forefront of providing specialty care in the Community Health Center (CHC) setting by first partnering with AndHealth to provide virtual and onsite care for autoimmune conditions and migraine. They’ve since expanded their partnership to also include onsite specialty care for rheumatology, dermatology, and select neurology, onsite specialty pharmacy and contract pharmacy support, and establishing primary care referral connections between health systems and LLCHC. Together, Lower Lights Health and AndHealth are also expanding care to new therapeutic areas such as Infectious Disease, Endocrinology, Immunology, and Gastroenterology.
“Adding specialty care to our services has allowed us to support patients in new and critical ways. Historically patients have waited months to see specialists and many of our patients have faced social drivers of health that prevented them from receiving the care they need,” said Tracy Cloud, CEO of Lower Lights Health. “Our patients can now be seen in less than two weeks, onsite or virtually, and care and medications are available on a sliding fee scale. Patients have access to things like health coaching, nutritional food, sleep and stress management support – all included within this whole-person approach to care.”
AndHealth team members attended the awards ceremony in Nashville to celebrate their collaborator’s recognition.
“AndHealth greatly values its partnership with Lower Lights Health,” said Autumn Glover, SVP of Partnerships. “Tracy has been an incredible collaborator and is always open to new innovations that will advance patient care. We’re thrilled to see Lower Lights Health recognized for its transformative work and were honored to be a part of it.”
About OCHIN
OCHIN is a nonprofit leader in equitable health care innovation and a trusted partner to a growing national provider network. With the largest collection of community health data in the country and more than two decades of practice-based research and solutions expertise, OCHIN provides the clinical insights and tailored technologies needed to expand patient access, grow and connect care teams, and improve the health of rural and medically underserved communities.
About Lower Lights Health
Lower Lights Health is a Christian based, Federally Qualified Health Center and 501 (c) (3) non-profit providing the highest quality health care to all – regardless of the ability to pay. We connect all aspects of health and wellness to provide patients with total care. Lower Lights Health serves over 15,000 patients from 7 sites in central Ohio. We welcome and serve all members of the community with dignity and respect.
Lower Lights Health….We are Beyond Health Care.
To learn more, visit llchc.org.
About AndHealth
AndHealth helps Community Health Centers (CHCs) radically improve access and outcomes for patients in specialty care and specialty pharmacy, while becoming an even larger and more clinically integrated part of our healthcare system. This Whole-Person Community Care Model provides everything CHCs need to deliver in-house specialty care and specialty pharmacy, built for the unique needs of our medically underserved populations.
The model provides CHCs with more patients, more clinical capabilities, alignment with health systems, and sustainable reimbursement and funding that restores the integrity of the patient’s medical home and their critical reimbursement model—both having shifted away from CHCs through external specialty referrals and contract pharmacies. In restoring this integrity, CHCs can tear down barriers to care and stretch scarce federal resources to reach more patients with comprehensive services that weren’t possible before and that are desperately needed by patients.
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, AndHealth is led by former CoverMyMeds co-founder and CEO Matt Scantland and the team that built Ohio’s first healthcare technology unicorn, who have dedicated their lives to transformative innovation that improves access for patients. AndHealth is supported by key investors including the American Medical Association’s innovation subsidiary, Francisco Partners, and the state of Ohio’s economic development organization. To learn more, visit AndHealth.com.
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