Full Name
Kim Prendergast
Job Title
Vice President, Policy
Company
Community Care Cooperative
Speaker Bio
Kim Prendergast, RDN, MPP
Vice President, Policy
Community Care Cooperative
Kim Prendergast is Vice President for Policy for Community Care Cooperative (C3), a Federally Qualified Health Center-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO) based in Massachusetts. In this role, she leads the ACO’s strategic and policy initiatives to support FQHCs to leverage value-based payments and address social drivers of health to improve health equity and health outcomes. Kim joined the organization in 2019 and was the architect of C3’s work to build partnerships across the healthcare and social services sectors, designing and implementing their $22M Flexible Services program through partnerships and contracts. Today C3 partners with more than twenty-five community organizations and has supported more than 15,000 C3 members with interventions to improve food insecurity, housing instability, and homelessness.
Prior to joining C3, Kim spent two decades addressing food insecurity and health with Feeding America through roles in public policy, nutrition programs, and healthcare partnership consulting. Kim is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a BS in Dietetics from Purdue University and has a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago. She lives in the Boston area.
Vice President, Policy
Community Care Cooperative
Kim Prendergast is Vice President for Policy for Community Care Cooperative (C3), a Federally Qualified Health Center-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO) based in Massachusetts. In this role, she leads the ACO’s strategic and policy initiatives to support FQHCs to leverage value-based payments and address social drivers of health to improve health equity and health outcomes. Kim joined the organization in 2019 and was the architect of C3’s work to build partnerships across the healthcare and social services sectors, designing and implementing their $22M Flexible Services program through partnerships and contracts. Today C3 partners with more than twenty-five community organizations and has supported more than 15,000 C3 members with interventions to improve food insecurity, housing instability, and homelessness.
Prior to joining C3, Kim spent two decades addressing food insecurity and health with Feeding America through roles in public policy, nutrition programs, and healthcare partnership consulting. Kim is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a BS in Dietetics from Purdue University and has a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago. She lives in the Boston area.
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