Every year the global community marks World AIDS day on December 1. It’s a painful reminder that sometimes there are no endings when it comes to fighting disease and protecting humanity. There are 38 million people living with HIV around the world, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While new HIV diagnoses …
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National Diabetes Month: New Prevention and Oral Health Resources
With approximately 35.6% of all Community Health Center patients struggling with diabetes, here are some useful resources available for health centers.
Hope, Health, and Healing: Health Center Serves the Unique Needs of Native Americans in the Twin Cities
The United States has a legal obligation to provide health care to Native Americans. Yet, the Native American community faces significant health status and health care inequities when compared to other U.S. populations. Native Americans born today have a life expectancy that is 4.4 years less than the overall U.S. population, and they die at …
Health Information Technology (HIT) a Home Run for NACHC
We are overloaded with information—reports, web posts, newscasts, clinical updates, and even new coffee flavors clamor for our attention. How do we sift through it all? Is there a meaning to be distilled from all the data before us? This general cultural problem in our information age has become a particular hindrance in clinical decision-making. …
NACHC’s Quality Center: Leading Change with Virtual Care
fronting the challenges of a global pandemic and the need for innovative virtual models of care, NACHC is delivering solutions through the Quality Center.
Fighting Vaccine Mistrust in Mississippi
NACHC has a new Health Centers on the Frontlines podcast out. This newest episode takes a deep dive in Mississippi, where COVID cases are easing a bit after being number one in the nation for the highest COVID deaths per capita, plus one of the lowest rates of vaccination. The state is far from being …
Introducing a New Model Protocol for Health Centers to Address Intimate Partner Violence and Exploitation
How can health centers make sure we are reaching the patients affected by IPV and exploitation?
Planning and Partnerships for COVID-19 Vaccination: One Community Health
The vaccination effort has included pop-up vaccine events at concerts in the park, county fair events with health departments, outreach immunization clinics in multiple Native American villages, and visits a tiny remote community in Hood River.
Q&A: Paula Gómez, Brownsville Community Health Center
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, NACHC is featuring leaders in the health center movement like Paula S. Gómez, the Executive Director of Brownsville Community Health Center. A Brownsville native, Paula has been actively involved in the Community Health Center movement both locally and nationally since 1974. BCHC serves as both a community and migrant …
October 15 Deadline Approaches for Advance Child Tax Credit
As you may know, the American Rescue Plan dramatically expanded the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to a maximum of $3,600 per child under 6 and $3,000 per child up to age 17. The credit is being issued in installments of up to $300 per month. The first checks were distributed automatically by direct deposit beginning …