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NewsUninsured, poor patients strain community health centers
Community health centers are struggling to attend to uninsured and poor patients, the Louisville Curier Journal reported. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, an average of 15.8 percent of Americans Read more...
Community health center populations will double in 5 years
The number of patients using community health centers will nearly double from the current 23 million to about 40 million by 2015, the National Association of Community Health Centers estimates. Read more...
HHS hands out $727M to upgrade community health centers
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $727 million in grants from the Affordable Care Act to help upgrade 143 community health centers, according to an announcement made Read more...
$600M budgeted for community health centers
The Obama Administration has set plans to spend $600 million to improve the nation's community health centers, including a boost for medical records systems. The funding came from the $787 billion Read more...
Study: Investment in community health saves states millions
While states are struggling to hold their budgets together, keeping basic services in place can pay off. That's definitely the case when it comes to primary care, according to a new study conducted Read more...
Free health clinics face more patients, less funding
While the economy may be recovering just a bit, times continue to be immensely difficult for free health clinics, whose patients loads are continuing to rise while corporate sponsors and charity cut Read more...
Case study: Minnesota clinics boosted by stimulus
Though nobody likes doing such things, Minnesota officials are planning cuts to public health programs. Luckily, it seems stimulus funding will help offset these cuts, by boosting the strength of the Read more...
Study: FL could save $700M/year by boosting primary care access
A new research paper prepared on behalf of the Florida legislature concludes that the state could save as much as $700 million a year on healthcare by making sure its citizens had adequate access to Read more...
Bush Administration re-funds community health centers
At a time when access to primary healthcare is proving increasingly important--especially for hospitals that want to avoid needless emergency department trips--it's probably looking like good news to Read more...
Tobacco settlement to fund healthcare in Washington, DC
It's been ten years since Washington, DC was awarded $245 million--its share of the tobacco industry's 1998 historical class action settlement with the states. Rand Corp. has produced a report to Read more...
| Press ReleasesAlbany Area Primary Health Care Selects eClinicalWorksTo Date, 400 Community Health Centers (CHCs) Use eClinicalWorks for Electronic Health Records WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, Read more >> Over 100,000 primary care providers sign up to adopt electronic health records through their Regional Extension CentersWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The HHS Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced today that more than 100,000 primary care providers are adopting certified Read more >> Arizona Regional Extension Center Names SuiteMed a Preferred VendorOAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SuiteMed™, a leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced that Arizona Health-e Connection has named SuiteMed a preferred vendor in its Vendor Alliance Read more >> Four Healthcare Associations Select MemberSuite Association Management Software to Enhance ServicesATLANTA, Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Four associations serving stakeholders involved in various aspects of healthcare have recently implemented MemberSuite's association management software solution Read more >> Affordable Care Act to help improve care for Medicare beneficiaries500 federally qualified health centers to receive funding, participate in a program to improve care WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, 500 community health centers in 44 Read more >> |
