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President Bush launched the Health Centers Initiative to significantly increase access to primary health care services in 1,200 communities through new or expanded health center sites. Between 2001 and 2006, the number of patients treated at health centers increased by over 4.7 million, representing a nearly 50 percent increase in just five years.
Orange General Hospital, Orange (a/k/a Hospital Center at Orange) Pascack Valley Hospital, Westwood (now Hackensack University Medical Center North at Pascack Valley) PBI Regional Medical Center, Passaic (now St. Mary's Hospital - Passaic) Raritan Valley Hospital, Green Brook, New Jersey [4] Riverdell Hospital, Oradell (closed 1981, demolished ...
All Federally Qualified Health Centers and rural health clinics (i.e., facilities which receive federal grants to provide healthcare to underserved populations) are automatically considered HPSAs. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] "Look-a-like" community-based providers which satisfy HRSA regulations for health centers but not the statutory requirements for grants ...
Aug. 3—The idea was a federally subsidized health program that would serve everybody, regardless of their ability to pay. Medical centers would have community-based leadership through a local ...
By 2010, assisted by funding received through the ARRA, health centers had expanded to serve more than 18 million people. The health center program's annual federal funding grew from $1.16 billion in the 2001 fiscal year to $2.6 billion in the 2011 fiscal year. [60] Health centers served 24,295,946 patients in 2015. [61]
The Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program is a federally funded program established in the United States in 1972 "to improve the supply, distribution, retention and quality of primary care and other health practitioners in medically underserved areas."
Virginia Avenue in Atlantic City: 1926 [2] current US 40: 64.32: 103.51 I-295 / US 40 on the Delaware Memorial Bridge in Pennsville: Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City: 1926 [2] current US 46: 75.34: 121.25 I-80 / Route 94 in Columbia: I-95 / US 1 / US 9 on the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee: 1935: current
Rural Health Centers are public, private, or non-profit health centers that provide primary care to Medicaid and Medicare populations in rural areas. RHC status is designated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, providing enhanced reimbursements rates for services. A health center cannot be both an RHC and a FQHC.