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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 ...
A Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is a community-based health care organization that provides comprehensive primary care and support services to underserved populations in the United States. These centers serve patients regardless of immigration status, insurance coverage, or ability to pay.
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.
The Eric B. Chandler Health Center, a federally qualified health center owned by the medical school, provides more than 60,000 patient encounters. It is the only family health center of its kind in New Jersey that is supported by a medical school and operated jointly with a community board. [6]
According to historian John Duffy, the concept of community health centers in the United States can be traced to infant milk stations in New York City in 1901. In November, 1914, the city established the first district health center in New York at 206 Madison Avenue, serving 35,000 residents of Manhattan's lower east side.
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 ...
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center: Atlantic City: New Jersey: II Capital Health Regional Medical Center: Trenton: New Jersey: II Cooper University Hospital: Camden: New Jersey: 635: I II Hackensack University Medical Center: Hackensack: New Jersey: 781: I [3] I [4] Jersey City Medical Center: Jersey City: New Jersey: II Jersey Shore ...
A healthcare center, health center, or community health center is one of a network of clinics staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses providing healthcare services to people in a certain area. Typical services covered are family practice and dental care, but some clinics have expanded greatly and can include internal medicine ...