Health care delivery: neighborhood health plan, inc. Promotes the general welfare of the people in the community by facilitating the delivery of comprehensive health services on a prepaid basis to members at 1473 primary care locations. Fully insured members include approximately 438 thousand individuals covered by medicaid, small and large employer groups and low income, high risk individuals. During 2016, members incurred approximately 5. 6 million ambulatory encounters and incurred approximately 226 thousand hospital patient days. Nhp offers members access to approximately 5 thousand primary care physicians and approximately 13 thousand specialists. Since 2008 neighborhood health plan has been accredited by the national committee for quality assurance (ncqa). Ncqa accreditation survey process includes on and off site evaluations of over 60 standards and performance measures conducted by a team of physicians and managed care experts. Every part of neighborhood health plans healthcare delivery system was evaluated including physicians, hospitals, affiliated providers, and administrative services. Nhp voluntarily pursued ncqa accreditation and will continue to strive for this recognition because we know our members deserve the highest quality care. In both the 2009 and 2010 editions of u. S. News & world report ranking the nations best health plans, neighborhood health plan ranked in the top 5 in medicaid and is one of the top 50 commercial health plans in america according to a joint ranking by u. S. News & world report and the national committee for quality assurance. Nhp has identified five major community health needs that it has targeted for community benefits that go beyond our membership including domestic violence initiative, access for medically underserved, ashthma initiatives, antidepressant medication adherence, and prenatal and well-child care.