IPCA Staff
Denise Chuckovich, MA
Executive Director
Denise is responsible for the overall management of the corporate affairs of Idaho Primary Care Association. Denise is responsible for accomplishing, personally and through appropriate delegation, the programmatic and strategic goals under policies and directives established by the IPCA's board of directors.
dchuckovich@idahopca.org
Teri Barker, RN, BSN, MHA
Director of Clinical Quality
Teri works closely with Idaho's community health centers to implement clinical quality improvement priorities. Teri provides training and technical assistance to community health centers in the areas of clinical quality, clinical operations and practice management. Staff lead for the Quality Committee.
tbarker@idahopca.org
Rick Beveridge
Finance Administrator
Rick is responsible for managing IPCA's financial functions and provides technical assistance related to financial operations to community health centers when requested. Staff lead for the Finance Committee. rbeveridge@idahopca.org
Jesus R Blanco
Director of Policy
Jesus is responsible for implementing the state and federal legislative advocacy agenda, working with state and federal agencies to support and implement policy issues of concern to the members of IPCA. Jesus also assists with identification and development of new program opportunities for Idaho's community health centers. Staff lead for the Legislative Committee.
Kathy Coumerilh
Director of Health Center Development and Training
Kathy provides training and technical assistance needs assessment and development of training and technical assistance strategies and assists the executive director in strategic and organizational planning and reporting.
Staff lead for the Membership and Nominating Committees.
kathyc@idahopca.org
Katrina Hoff
Director of Workforce Development/SEARCH
Katrina is IPCA's contact for recruitment of professional candidates for Idaho's community health centers. Katrina is also responsible for the implementation of IPCA's workforce strategy and serves as staff lead for the Workforce Development Committee. She also directs the Idaho SEARCH (Students/Residents and Rotations in Community Health) program. khoff@idahopca.org
Kimberlie Ritchey
SEARCH Program Specialist
Kimberlie provides program support for the Idaho SEARCH program. She works most closely with the student/resident participants and manages processes for collecting student documents and required program data. She also supports the SEARCH program director in all aspects of the program as needed.
Timothy Heinze, MHA
Medical Home/Meaningful Use Program Manager
Tim provides technical assistance to health centers in the process of transformation to the Patient-Centered Medical Home model of care; provides assistance with achieving formal recognition of the PCMH; provides assistance to CHCs in assessing their readiness to adopt meaningful use standards.
Deborah Blanton
Program Specialist
Deborah provides project support to the director of clinical quality, the medical home/meaningful use program manager, and the finance administrator; coordinates training and technical assistance activities; and provides office management.