Health Centers: Resources

• A Rural Federally Qualified Health Center's Impact on Hospital Emergency Room Uninsured and Medicaid Visits and Costs (August 2008) A National Rural Health Association publication on the cost-reducing effect of FQHC's on Hospital Emergency Rooms.
• National Association of Community Health Centers Fact Sheet (August 2008)
• Health Centers' Roles in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities (May 2008) A National Association of Community Health Centers fact sheet on how community health centers help to reduce or even eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities among their patients.
• Federal Community Health Centers and State Health Policy: A Primer for Policy Makers (June 2008) A National Academy for State Health Policy overview of the role of federally funded community health centers in state health care reform.
• Access Plan Seeks Broad Expansion of Community Health Centers (March 2008) Article by the American Academy of Family Physicians regarding the "ACCESS for All American" Plan launched by the National Association of Community Health Centers.
• Health Centers - America's Primary Care Safety Net: Reflections on Success 2002-2007 Success stories from health centers from around the nation. (Bureau of Primary Health Care 2008)
• The Role of Community Health Centers in Delivering Primary Care to the Underserved (April-June 2007) A peer-reviewed publication from the USC Center for Community Health Studies
• Access to Specialty Care and Medical Services in Community Health Centers (Health Affairs, Sept./Oct. 2007
• Community Health Clinics Flourish, but Doctors Are Few: Government Needs to Entice Physicians, Health Officials Say
  By Christopher Lee  Washington Post, Tuesday, June 19, 2007
• Access Denied, 2007 | Access Granted, 2007 
• NACHC, Fact Sheet Health Care Home, 2007
• Safety Net on the Edge (August 2005)
• National Association of Community Health Centers Releases New Brief (August 2004)
• Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities:  Estimating the Impact of High Health Center Penetration in Low-Income Communities (September 2003)
  A study by The George Washington University Medical Center.
  
• A Profile of Federally Funded Health Centers Serving a Higher Proportion of Uninsured Patients (June 2002)
  June 2002 report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. This study looks at the characteristics of health centers that serve a high rate of uninsured patients.
  
• Assessing State Strategies for Health Coverage Expansion: Case Studies of Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Georgia (November 2002)
  A new report from the Commonwealth Fund by Sharon Silow-Carroll, Emily K. Waldman, Jack A. Meyer, Claudia Williams, Kimberley Fox, and Joel C. Cantor. The report contains case studies analyzing four states' efforts to expand health coverage.
  

• Experts with Experience: Community and Migrant Health Centers Highlighting a Decade of Service
  Report highlighting health center mission, achievements and funding between 1990 and 2000.

• HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care
  Home page for HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care.

• National Association of Community Health Centers
  

  Home page for the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). This web site includes legislative information as well as new funding and education opportunities for health centers.

• National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network
  3R Net is made up of state organizations such as State Offices of Rural Health, AHECs, Cooperative Agreement Agencies and State PCAs. These not-for-profit organizations help health professionals locate practice sites in rural areas throughout the country.

• Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Estimating the Impact of High Health Center Penetration in Low-Income Communities (September 2003)
  A publication produced by the Center for Health Services Research and Policy at the George Washington University Medical Center.

• Safety Net Monitoring Initiative
  These data books and tools for monitoring the safety net were created by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

• State and Regional Primary Care Association Directory
  The National Association for Community Health Centers provides a directory of state and regional primary care associations (PCAs), including contacts and web site information.

• Studies of Health Center Cost-Effectiveness (Updated November 2003)
  A list of citations, compiled by the National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc., of studies from the 1970's to the present that look at the cost effectiveness of health centers.

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