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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 ...
A Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) is a type of health clinic in the United States that treats mental health and substance abuse disorders regardless of the patient's health insurance status and ability to pay for care. [1] [2] [3] CCBHCs are funded through Medicaid or SAMHSA grants. [2] [4]
Dr. Gene Dorio kisses Robin Clough in the kitchen of their home. Dorio, a house-call geriatrician, has been spending much of his time caring for Clough. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
The volunteers next organized a free clinic in a space donated by the Church of Our Savior on Henry Street and the Chinatown Health Clinic opened that same year. It was renamed the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in 1999. [3] As the free clinic grew, donations funded the expansion to a new location at 89 Baxter Street in 1979. [4]
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 ...
In 1997, Dr. Gary Burnstein, a cardiologist, started caring for patients from a local shelter in Pontiac, Michigan. Dr. Burnstein died in September 2003. His family took up his goal of providing healthcare access to the uninsured and founded the Dr. Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic in October 2004. [4]
The HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for Community Howard Regional Health, as of 2015. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for eighteen inpatient conditions and procedures, thirteen patient safety indicators, percentage of patients giving the hospital a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings).