Please join us in congratulating Ms. Donna Sue Vent, the March National Community Health Advocate of the Month! Donna’s connection and passion for health centers started in 1999 when she began working as an LPN at Southeast Missouri Health Network (SEMO) in New Madrid County, Missouri. In her time at SEMO Donna has risen as …
Questions are the Answer
A nationwide campaign is underway to help reduce medical errors. The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) of HHS is encouraging patients to become more involved with their own health care so they can help improve quality of care and reduce the likelihood of medical errors. Since Community Health Centers provide health care …
Waianae Wins!
Why are these people smiling? It’s not just the blue skies and sun in Hawaii. These folks are the lucky staff of the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC). The health center just won an award from the American Psychological Association for its innovations aimed at the well-being of employees. Waianae’s morale boosting programs include …
New Book Traces the Health Center Roots
When has health care in America gone right? Try going back over forty years when a convergence of will and radical ideas sparked the Community Health Center Movement. A new book traces those fledgling steps that revolutionized health care. Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen is the title of …
Sticker Shock
You think you’re paying a lot now? U.S. health care spending will almost double to $4.1 trillion in 2016 and account for 20% of every dollar spent, or, roughly, $1 of every $5 spent in the United States by the end of the decade, according to a new report. President Bush has seized on these …
Links That Get Us Thinking Part Two
Surely it’s probably only a matter of time before the NACHC Washington Update makes the cut and becomes the go to place to read about cool stuff going on in health care. We have a few things going for us: we’re never dull, we don’t take ourselves too seriously in the oh-so-serious world of health …
Metta: Where the Care is Bettah
Nurse Practitioner Chhan Touch examines patient San Duong at the Metta Health Center in Lowell. (Staff Photo by Jon Hill, Lowell Sun) The excellent care offered at Metta Health Center in Lowell, MA, recently drew a nod from local press. The Lowell Sun came knocking after the health center was named one of five finalists …
One Midwife’s Inspiration in OK
Here’s a good story dug up from one of Oklahoma’s rural pockets: A nurse practioner and midwife is trying to start a health center in the city of McAlester, where the nearest OBGYN is roughly 50 miles in any direction (that includes Texas). Shelia Means isn’t letting a little thing like money get in the …
Playing Well in Peoria
The Senate has approved a Continuing Resolution bill that boosts funds for Community Health Centers by $207 million. That amount includes $25 million to help health centers cover the costs of caring for a growing patient population. A recent editorial in the Illinois newspaper the Journal Star hit it right on the head in terms …