“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sixteen ACH members have received a portion of the $240 million in new funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) as part of a national effort to expand mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services to patients of community health centers. The Biden-Harris Administration has called on Congress to require and fund […]
Signatories from health care organizations in all 50 states, representing over 11 million health center patients, emphasized the crucial necessity for maximum health center funding to address unprecedented challenges. WASHINGTON—Advocates for Community Health (ACH), a membership organization for federally qualified health centers working to advance forward-thinking health policies, led over 550 health care organizations […]
ACH’s Health Center Funding Letter was mentioned in POLITICO Pulse: “Community health centers are looking to Congress to offer them more — and more reliable — federal funding in the coming years, Daniel reports. More than 550 groups — community health centers and their allies — will send a letter to House and Senate leadership […]
Advocates for Community Health (ACH) is grateful to the Commonwealth Fund for its 2024 National Survey of Federally Qualified Health Centers, which demonstrates the critical importance of these safety net clinics to our nation’s underserved communities while showing in real time the barriers they face in delivering much-needed care. The survey shows that health centers […]
“Health centers are stepping up to the plate to keep their communities healthy amid rising demand,” said Amanda Pears Kelly, CEO of Advocates for Community Health. “But the reality is … it’s also not sustainable,” she said. “Congress needs to increase long-term federal funding to both health centers and workforce programs like the National Health […]