Roughly 13 to 27 percent of visits to the emergency department (ED) could be managed in a primary care setting, and the average non-emergency visit to the ED costs seven times more than the average health center visit. In the emerging landscape of value-based care, health centers and hospitals are exploring new partnerships to improve …
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A Prescription for College Humanities Under the Roof of a Boston Health Center
A Community Health Center may seem like an unlikely place to learn about the arts and humanities, but really, when you think about it, the notion is not so implausible. At Codman Square Health Center, located in the working class neighborhood of Dorchester in Boston, the focus is always on the whole health of a patient. To that end, if a health center patient requires a …
Health Center Leaders Honored at Agricultural Worker Health Conference
The NACHC 2017 Agricultural Worker Health Conference is underway in Savannah, GA. Migrant heath centers currently serve nearly 1 million of the estimated 4 million agricultural workers in the country, and they are on course to boost up that number to 2 million patients served by year 2020. Today the focus of the conference was on the health …
African American Death Rate Drops 25 Percent
The death rate for African Americans declined from 1999 to 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s good news, but African Americans are still more likely than white Americans to die at a young age. Although African Americans are living longer, their life expectancy is still four years less than that …
Health Centers Have a Secret Weapon for Addressing Minority Health: Consumer Boards
National Minority Health Month 2017 is behind us but we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out one particularly unique way Community Health Centers address minority health — through consumer-driven boards. By law, health center boards must be comprised of at least 51% consumers. These are people who live in the community served by the health …
The Challenges to Providing Eqaul Health Care Access to All
Today’s guest blog post is by Susan West Levine, CEO of Lowell Community Health Center in Massachusetts. This article originally appeared in the March/April’17 issue of Merrimack Valley Magazine, MVMag.net. Reprinted with permission from the publisher, 512 Media, Inc. Photo Credit: Kevin Harkins As CEO of Lowell Community Health Center (CHC), I am often asked just …
Exchange Requirements on Contracting and Payment to FQHCs
We’ve been hearing from a lot of you with questions on the Exchange and the contracting and payment requirements for Qualified Health Plans and FQHCs. We’ve put together this Q&A in hopes that it helps answer your questions and provides you with some additional helpful resources. Please don’t hesitate to contact Roger or Susan with …