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 for how we can be using this money to really tackle chronic disease,” Stephanie Krenrich, Advocates for Community Health (ACH) senior vice president of policy and government affairs, said in an interview with Inside Health Policy on Tuesday (Aug. 19).
“We do not just have our hands out — we want to make sure they know how much health centers can leverage investment to deliver on Trump’s agenda,” Krenrich added.
ACH also argues that CHCs should benefit from the OBBB’s five-year, $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund, reports Jalen Brown at Inside Health Policy.
“That fund is open to a lot of different kinds of entities. It’s been billed often as a hospital fund, but it is open to community health centers,” Krenrich said. “And we really hope that states and the CMS administrator will think about how important community health centers are to the health care ecosystem . . . and hopefully they will provide those funds to health centers that apply.”