Advocates for Community Health (ACH) is gravely concerned that progress on the continuing resolution and year-end package has stalled and urges congressional leaders to find a solution to the current impasse. The legislative package now on hold contains two years of mandatory funding for community health centers. ACH urges Congress to include this provision for […]
Following yesterday’s release of the continuing resolution and year-end package, Advocates for Community Health (ACH) applauds Congressional leaders for including policies that will help health centers continue to provide coordinated, innovative primary care to rural and underserved communities nationwide. These policies will make a real difference to health centers, their patients, and communities. Among the […]
Lone Star Circle of Care (LSCC), a Federally Qualified Health Center located in Central Texas, provides comprehensive healthcare services to underserved populations, including low-income families, individuals experiencing homelessness, and those lacking health insurance. Recently, LSCC was awarded Phase 2 funding from Advocates for Community Health’s (ACH) Community Health Entrepreneur Challenge in partnership with UnitedHealthcare Community […]
WASHINGTON – Advocates for Community Health (ACH), a nonpartisan membership organization for federally qualified health centers working to advance forward-thinking health policies, sent a letter to Congress on Friday urging Congressional leadership to include community health center funding and legislation in any end-of-year legislation package. In a communication to U.S. House and Senate leadership, ACH […]
In an article from 340B Report which states that AbbVie will expand its contract pharmacy restrictions with new claims data reporting requirements for 340B grantee covered entities beginning Jan.1. ACH’s Stephanie Krenrich, senior vice president of policy & government affairs, said ACH recognizes the need for compliance with the 340B statute and is advocating for […]
Community Health Centers are the backbone of our nation’s health care system. Advocates for Community Health joins with our partner at National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) in calling on Congress to prioritize 32.5 million health center patients in year-end funding decisions. You can help by contacting your members of Congress today before funding […]
“There’s so much evidence of the value and the return that health centers bring. The Teaching Health Center program is more recent, but for the National Health Service Corps and the Health Center program specifically, we have decades of evidence of the impact — clinically and economically,” Advocates for Community Health CEO Amanda Pears Kelly […]
Advocates for Community Health (ACH), a non-profit, non-partisan membership organization of community health centers (CHCs), has issued the following statement regarding Paragon Health Institute’s Policy Brief, “Health Care for a Lame Duck” by Jackson Hammond, published on November 14, 2024: ACH urges Congress to reject the Paragon Health Institute’s recent lame duck recommendations as we […]
A learning collaborative is an initiative in which teams of peers come together to study and apply quality improvement methodology to a focused topic area. First conceived by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in 1994, learning collaboratives help organizations apply known improvement principles to current health care practices with the goal of achieving “breakthrough […]
Last year, Cherokee Health Systems (CHS), a Federally Qualified Health Center in East Tennessee and surrounding counties, served over 65,000 patients at 19 health centers, telehealth visits, and a mobile unit. CHS provides primary care, behavioral health, dentistry, optometry, and pharmacy services to its communities, which have increased since 2019 in special populations, including homeless […]