Oct. 22, 2025
Natalie Levkovich, Chief Executive Officer of the Health Federation of Philadelphia, was honored with the Cheri L. Rinehart Award for Collaborative Excellence by the Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers at its recent 2025 Awards for Primary Care Excellence (APEX) Ceremony in Lancaster, Pa.
The Cheri L. Rinehart Award for Collaborative Excellence is presented to an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary achievement in promoting collaboration to achieve a common goal that advances the mission of Community Health Centers in Pennsylvania, and the patients and communities served. The award is given in honor of PACHC’s CEO from 2009-2024.
"I am honored to receive this recognition, particularly because of its focus on collaboration," Levkovich said. "Collaboration, and the relationships upon which it is based, has been at the heart of our work at Health Federation and has led both to shared success as well as to personal fulfillment."
Levkovich celebrated her 40th year of service with the Health Federation of Philadelphia in 2024, and has worked in an executive leadership capacity with the Health Federation since 1987. She has been responsible for implementing a number of innovative practices aimed at strengthening health centers and improving access to high quality, comprehensive care for vulnerable populations, and has built an extensive network of collaborators and leveraged their collective expertise to build system level capacity to advance population health goals.
The Health Federation is known locally, nationally and internationally as an innovative, mission-driven organization and a trustworthy partner, a reputation that has been earned under Levkovich’s leadership, PACHC said in its statement honoring her.
Levkovich has served on numerous advisory committees and governing boards. including the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program, as Chair of the Advisory Committee for the National Center for Behavioral Health Integration, as Board President of Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, Board Chair of South Philly East Health and Wellness, Board Chair of Health Care Improvement Foundation, founding member of the Valentine Foundation’s Leadership Fund, member of the Edna G. Kynett Foundation Board, and long-term former Board member of First Hospital Foundation (currently known as Philadelphia Health Partnership).
As the state primary care association, the Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers represents and supports the largest network of primary healthcare providers in the commonwealth. This network of health centers includes Community Health Centers (Federally Qualified Health Centers and FQHC Look-Alikes), Rural Health Clinics and other like-mission providers that collectively serve more than a million patients annually at 400-plus sites in underserved rural and urban areas throughout Pennsylvania.
About the Health Federation of Philadelphia
The Health Federation of Philadelphia is a public health nonprofit that promotes community health by advancing access to high-quality, integrated, comprehensive health and human services.
The Health Federation of Philadelphia serves as a keystone supporting a network of Community Health Centers as well as the broader base of public and private-sector organizations that deliver healthcare, public health and human services to vulnerable populations.