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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.
Community health centers that receive federal funding through the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are also called "Federally Qualified Health Centers". There are now more than 1,250 federally supported FQHCs with more than 8,000 service delivery sites.
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 ...
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 ...
The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center (CBWCHC), founded in 1971, is a nonprofit organization and Federally Qualified Health Center in New York City. [1] 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 ...
Jefferson Health, is a multi-state non-profit health system whose flagship hospital is Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City, Philadelphia. The health system's hospitals serve as the teaching hospitals of Thomas Jefferson University. Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health are integrated together as two arms of the same ...
Community Healthcare Network (CHN) provides primary care, mental health and social services in New York City. All of its locations are designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center by the Bureau of Primary Health Care. It is also an affiliate member of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
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.