About Clinical Directors Network, Inc.

Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN) is dedicated to providing and improving comprehensive and accessible community-oriented primary and preventive health care services for poor, minority, and underserved populations. CDN is the only practice-based research network in the country devoted to providing primary care research opportunities to medically underserved populations.

CDN was founded in 1985 as a professional peer organization, based on the demonstrated effectiveness of peer-initiated activities in promoting health care excellence, assuring and improving quality, and containing costs. CDN operates as a private, not-for-profit corporation, by and for an extensive network or current and future Community/Migrant Health Center (C/MHC) Clinical Leaders.

CDN currently works with C/MHCs in New York, New Jersey, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Florida, Oklahoma, Utah, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Washington DC.

CDN works in partnership with many governmental not-for-profit and for-profit organizations and has a for-profit subsidary, Quality Professional Systems Development, Inc. (QPSD).

Why Clinical Networks?

Clinical Networks offer members access to peers who collect and share information, skills, and technical assistance. Within their communities, members introduce the latest developments in clinical and health services education, including Total Quality Management/Continuous Quality Improvement (TQM/CQI), re-engineering, managed care, and practice-based research.