Washington, D.C. (October 22, 2025) — Advocates for Community Health (ACH), the national nonprofit organization driving federal policy and advocacy on behalf of community health centers, has appointed Parinda Khatri, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of River Valley Health, to its Board of Directors Executive Committee. Dr. Khatri will help guide ACH’s policy strategy and governance […]
From October 6–7, community health center (CHC) leaders from across the country converged in Denver for the first-ever Advocates for Community Health (ACH) Best Practices Showcase. Under the theme, “Innovations in Health Care Access,” the event highlighted one central truth: CHCs are not waiting for change—they are building it from the ground up. What began […]
ACH CEO Amanda Pears Kelly was interviewed by reporter Megan Wilson for The Washington Post’s Health Brief on the impacts of the federal government shutdown. The Health Center Program funding lapsed on September 30, 2025. Wilson writes: Community health centers operate on such thin profit margins, said Amanda Pears Kelly, the chief executive of Advocates for […]
ACH CEO Amanda Pears Kelly was interviewed by Modern Healthcare to discuss how the federal government shutdown is affecting segments of the healthcare system—particularly community health centers. She told reporter Michael McAuliff that a gap in federal funding will worsen their financial strain because “They don’t have backup dollars,” and most health centers don’t have enough […]
Two ACH Board members, Anne Kauffman Nolon, CEO of Sun River Health and Christy Trotter, CEO of Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, were interviewed for this article in Axios: “Local health facilities will be ground zero for the sweeping Medicaid changes that the GOP budget law unleashed,” reports Maya Goldman at Axios. The $1 trillion […]
Washington, D.C. — August 27, 2025 — Advocates for Community Health (ACH), a nonpartisan membership organization representing innovative federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) nationwide, is calling for a bold new investment in the Community Health Center Program as the Health Center Fund is set to expire on September 30, 2025, and warns that flat funding […]
Advocates for Community Health’s Senior Vice President of Policy & Government Affairs Stephanie Krenrich was interviewed exclusively for this article, published today in Inside Health Policy: “As we talk to Republicans, either the administration or others, we are consistently tying any increase in our funding to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ (and) highlighting our positive vision […]
Since the first Community Health Center (CHC) opened in 1965, our nation’s largest primary care network has expanded to over 1,500 sites, now serving more than 32.5 million people across the United States and its territories—in both rural and urban communities. Despite their growth and critical role in healthcare delivery, several misconceptions about CHCs persist, […]
Founded in 2021 as a 501(c)4, Advocates for Community Health (ACH) emerged from a shared vision among leaders of 14 of the nation’s largest federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). United by a commitment to advancing healthcare access, these leaders created ACH as a nonpartisan membership and advocacy organization built to bring new vision to the […]
Advocates for Community Health was mentioned in this article by Noah Tong in Fierce Healthcare: Groups representing community health centers (CHCs) reacted to the regulatory shift, some uncertain how to best comply with federal law now. “Federal law requires CHCs to accept ‘all residents of the area served by the center,’ the National Association of […]