Muhammad new VP of FQHC Services for Aspire
JayVon Muhammad, a veteran healthcare executive with a record of championing underserved populations, has been tapped by Aspire Indiana Health to be their next Vice President of FQHC Medical Services, overseeing all of the nonprofit’s primary care operations and psychiatric services in four Central Indiana counties.
After a half-century of being primarily a behavioral healthcare provider, in 2015 Aspire launched family medicine services, becoming certified as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) look-alike that accepts Medicaid and Medicare. The nonprofit also accepts most traditional insurance and has sliding-scale fees for the uninsured and underinsured.
Today approximately one-quarter of patient appointments are for primary care services, with health centers in Indianapolis, Anderson, Lebanon, Noblesville, Carmel and Elwood. Muhammad will help guide the continued expansion of FQHC services to communities lacking adequate primary care coverage.
“My goal is to bring healthcare to the community. My approach is very grassroots. I want to see what every person in the community needs and find a way to bring that service to them,” Muhammad said. “I want Aspire to be the provider of choice, not just need. I’m going to work very hard to make sure the clinics are connected to the people.”
She currently serves as president and CEO of RAMS, Inc., a behavioral health provider in the San Francisco Bay Area that won the California Nonprofit of the Year award in 2022. She previously served as CEO of FQHCs in Lakes Charles, La., and Marin City, Calif. She began her healthcare career as a midwife and continues to hold that certification.
Muhammad received her bachelor’s degree from the National College of Midwifery and her master’s degree in maternal and child health systems from Bastyr University, where she has also served on the adjunct faculty.
Muhammad was initially interested in the Central Indiana area due to her daughter moving to Indianapolis to work with the Indianapolis School for the Deaf, with which Aspire has an ongoing partnership, boasting its own deaf services team. She was attracted to the nonprofit’s “whole health” approach to fully integrated care.
She will start her new position July 31.
