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 […]
Advocates for Community Health, a nonpartisan, advocacy-focused membership organization for community health centers, calls on the Biden Administration to include dedicated funding for community health centers in any disaster supplemental request it sends to Congress, and for Congress to act on this request swiftly. From the Maui wildfires over a year ago to the devastating […]
Dear ACH Members, I know many might be questioning what this election means for health centers, wondering if the outcome changes the focus of our work towards securing health center funding, realizing 340B reform, advocating for workforce needs, ensuring financial sustainability for health centers, and more. ACH has prepared for this outcome and stands ready to fight […]
The 340B Drug Pricing Program is a game changer for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), which have limited flexible funding streams at their disposal and often use their 340B savings for services that are non-reimbursable. The financial impact of these savings cannot be overstated, as they allow FQHCs to stretch their already scarce federal resources […]
A major form of funding for community health centers is set to expire at the end of the year. A wide coalition of groups including Advocates for Community Health, which represents health centers, is pushing for an extension of at least three years with a minimum of $5.8 billion a year. Earlier this year, Congress […]
Samantha (Sami) Noble joined ACH in October 2023 as ACH’s first director of membership and grassroots advocacy. She brings a deep background in social work and public policy, which have equally impacted her career as a human rights advocate. Across the different nonprofits she has worked for, Sami developed guidelines on weapon ordinance and land […]