News Medical Health Sciences

MARCH 19, 2025

As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Author Mark Taylor Two inspiring fellowships In the mid 1990s, Taylor spent a year researching community health centers on a Kaiser fellowship and then a second year as a Kaiser Media Fellow studying the U.S. health care system. At the same time, Cincinnati Childrens improved patient safety and quality of care, he wrote.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Health Equity

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, a Chicago-based coalition of Black board directors, seeks to address health disparities in public hospitals and community health centers with a $1.5 million grant from Kaiser Permanente.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The health portion contains pharmaceutical benefit manager (PBM) industry reforms, extensions of Medicare telehealth flexibilities, reauthorizations of legislation to prevent pandemics and address the opioid crisis, payments to community health centers, a rollback of physician payment cuts and other policies.

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Phreesia

AUGUST 5, 2024

Community health centers across the U.S. In recognition of National Health Center Week (August 4 th to 10 th ), we sat down with Beth Wrobel, a community health center consultant and former CEO of HealthLinc, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) with 12 clinics across Indiana.

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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Georgia health professionals have been asking for a law like this for over a decade as a way to address growing primary care shortages and improve culturally competent care for immigrant patients.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s smaller clinics and community health centers that may bear more of the brunt of the shift to commercial Covid-19 vaccines. Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, a federally qualified health center in New York City that provides services to primarily LGBTQ+ patients, is poised to administer the updated vaccines.

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Tribal leaders and the National Indian Health Board, along with Urban Indian Organizations andthe National Council of Urban Indian Health, have fought tirelessly to increase resources for the highly successful program. The proposal includes an extension of funding for Community Health Centers at $3.4

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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HEALTHBEAT

MARCH 18, 2025

With potentially deep cuts to Medicaid on the horizon, local hospital leaders and health advocates in New York warn that funding reductions could significantly destabilize the citys network of safety-net hospitals and community health centers. Earlier this month, Dr.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

What sets the Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit apart is that it was co-developed in partnership with free clinics and community health centers serving low-income and uninsured patients, said Donna Porstner, Americares vice president of marketing and communications.

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The CR includes $100 billion for disaster relief in the wake of recent national disasters, a one-year extension of the Farm Bill to support agriculture, and extends all expiring health programs until March 31, 2025. Community Health Centers were funded at $4 billion per year from 2019 to 2023.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The workers are “an extension of the health care system” and serve as a link “between the formality of this health care system and the community,” she said. The programs are often based at hospital systems or community health centers.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The workers are “an extension of the health care system” and serve as a link “between the formality of this health care system and the community,” she said. The programs are often based at hospital systems or community health centers.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free Atlanta newsletter here. Since selling her private practice eight years ago, Dr. Gulshan Harjee has spent most of her professional career invested in the Clarkston Community Health Center, a charity clinic she co-founded that serves a steady flow of immigrant patients.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“CHCANYS’ vision is that every New York State community has primary care that encompasses all aspects of each patient’s health and well-being.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

MARCH 27, 2025

Whether you’re looking to connect with Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) programs, Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) projects, Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood (TPEC) sites, community health centers, or other key partners, AMCHP is here to help.

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The Hill

MARCH 14, 2025

Bipartisan health leaders in mid-December agreed on a sweeping health package that included PBM reforms, extensions of Medicare telehealth flexibilities, reauthorizations of legislation to prevent pandemics and address the opioid crisis, payments to community health centers, and a rollback of Medicare physician payment cuts.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It’s a huge waste of resources,” said Shannon Heuklom, a primary care provider and an expert in street medicine for the San Francisco Community Health Center, with a clinic nestled in the heart of the Tenderloin. “All the sweeps and arrests are doing is moving people to the next sidewalk and disrupting their continuity of care.

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

MARCH 21, 2025

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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The health department hopes to replace that with a building over seven times the size, one that would offer a wider array of affordable programs for low-income residents. Cobb and Douglas Public Health plans to replace this South Cobb Community Health Center building in Austell, Georgia, and expand health services in South Cobb County.

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

APRIL 8, 2025

L to R: Francys Crevier (Algonquin), JD, CEO of NCUIH Kyu Rhee, President and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Secretary Kennedy Jessica Yanow, President and CEO of the Arizona Alliance for Community Health Centers Walter Murillo (Choctaw), CEO of NATIVE HEALTH About NCUIH The National Council of Urban Indian Health (..)

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The Hill

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Temporary health extenders included in the December bill funding community health centers, delaying Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payment cuts to safety net hospitals and extending Medicare telehealth flexibilities are all due to expire by the end of March. But if Congress wants to act, the clock is ticking.

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Community Health Centers 68

The Hill

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Republicans also jettisoned a Medicare physician payment boost and a hospital billing transparency measure that were included in the original health package. It will also extend community health center funding for the same period.

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Black Health Matters

JANUARY 7, 2025

.” Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP, President and CEO of NACHC, commented on how Carter championed healthcare access in rural communities in a statement.

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NC Health News

APRIL 2, 2025

Hurricane Maria provides example Rural and community health centers are a vital safety net for millions of Americans. Community Health Center Association and knows the needs of this state well, including its extensive history of hurricanes disrupting power to crucial services. Its a huge success story.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 27, 2025

North Carolina is one of the leading states in the country for research dollars, and so people just don’t know what that really means, said Brian Toomey, retired head of Piedmont Health Services, a community health center based in Carrboro. That’s really jobs.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A huge safety net Medicaid and CHIP provide health and long-term care insurance to more than 72.3 According to this report from KFF , Medicaid, the nations largest safety-net program, provides significant funding for the following: Hospitals, community health centers, physicians, nursing homes and community-based long-term services.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

APRIL 10, 2025

Whether youre looking to connect with Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) programs, Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) projects, Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood (TPEC) sites, community health centers, or other key partners, AMCHP is here to help.

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KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Funding freezes and contract cancellations are already having a chilling effect on health programs, such as biomedical research grants for the National Institutes of Health, humanitarian and health aid provided overseas by the U.S.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 26, 2024

For example, Clarkston Community Health Center , a free health clinic that serves uninsured people, including many refugees, is no longer able to provide any vaccines, said executive director Jeremy Cole, because of “funding shortages.” But some charity clinics are not able to offer Covid vaccines.

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Key Public Health Programs Extended: The CR extends current funding for the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI) through March 31, 2025, at $39.3 Extends current funding Community Health Centers, National Health Service Corps, teaching health centers that operate GME programs until March 31, 2025.

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But on top of that, if you're a Republican that voted for Donald Trump and you believe in his agenda, something that is broadly popular among Republicans and Democrats are community health centers,” she told host Joy Reid. “If And we are talking about people who live in rural communities.

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The Hill

MARCH 6, 2025

Bipartisan health leaders in mid-December had agreed a sweeping health package that included PBM reforms, extensions of Medicare telehealth flexibilities, reauthorizations of legislation to prevent pandemics and address the opioid crisis, payments to community health centers, and a rollback of physician payment cuts.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In the Springfield area, Catholic charities, other philanthropies, volunteers, and county agencies have banded together over the past three to four years to tackle the challenge and connect immigrants who have critical health needs with providers and care. For instance, a community health center added Haitian Creole interpreters.

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