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The Health Center provides high-quality and affordable primary health care to members of the community with a focus on Asian Americans. There are six locations in Lower Manhattan and Flushing, Queens, all of which are opened 7 days a week. In 2023, the Health Center served more than 59,000 patients and 285,000 service visits.
Some patient portal applications enable patients to register and complete forms online, which can streamline visits to clinics and hospitals. Many portal applications also enable patients to request prescription refills online, order eyeglasses and contact lenses, access medical records, pay bills, review lab results, and schedule medical ...
Community health volunteers are members of a local community who have experience and training on the health problems prevalent in their community and care services available, in order to identify and link those in need with local providers. Community health volunteers may be referred to by different titles depending on their local health system ...
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...
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 ...
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.
Community Health Systems (CHS) is a Fortune 500 company based in Franklin, Tennessee. [1] It was the largest provider of general hospital healthcare services in the United States in terms of number of acute care facilities.
1961: Community Health Services and Facilities Act PL 87-395; 1962: Public Health Service Act PL 87-838; 1962: Vaccination Assistance PL 87-868; 1963: Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act/Community Mental Health Centers Act PL 88-164; 1964: Nurse Training Act PL 88-581; 1965: Community Health Services and Facilities Act PL 89-109