Health Center News & Information
For the last two years, NACHC’s Elevate learning forum has supported over 450 health centers nationwide in applying systems change to reduce costs, enhance patient and staff experience, improve health outcomes, and advance health equity. Register for Elevate 2021: http://bit.ly/QCElevate_2021. Community Health Centers (aka Federally Qualified Health Centers) have faced many new and daunting challenges over …
This year we were honored colleagues who have advanced the health center mission and whose contributions have vastly improved the lives of America’s migrant and seasonal agricultural workers.
Batayola shares why she is drawn to Community Health Center work and what keeps her going.
Dentists and dental teams are being utilized to help administer COVID-19 vaccines.
The COVID-19 vaccination outreach efforts of Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc., are informed by the health center’s deep understanding of the logistical challenges and cultural beliefs of the agricultural worker community it serves.
A new stunning 86-minute documentary film explores the universality of trauma and resilience through the eyes of immigrant and refugee health care practitioners and patients and features a Community Health Center in Lowell, MA
Authors: Ali Jost, LICSW, and Caryn Bernstein, Manager, NACHC Clinical Affairs Division-Operations. Jost is a trauma therapist, trainer and behavioral health coach. She was faculty on the recent Innovative Approaches for Prescription Drug Abuse Management and Prevention project. Editor’s Note: One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, let’s take a look back at one of the …
At this year’s Policy and Issues Forum, community health center leaders came together to provide further detail for the “Health Centers and Underserved Communities: Vaccinations From First Mile to Last Mile” session.
As two Florida health centers show, an understanding of systemic racism and medical history is proving crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many Black Americans are expressing some reluctance to getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
We may finally be turning a corner in the year-long fight against COVID-19. The massive vaccination effort underway gives us reason to have hope that life will eventually get better. We are proud that Community Health Centers are front and center in the Biden Administration’s national strategy to get as many people as possible vaccinated. …