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Issue: Fall/Winter 2011
Features
Community Health Center Funding Declines As Demand for Services Rises
by Micah Clemens
While lawmakers in states across the nation grapple with tight budgets, community health centers are facing a steep decline in state funding for the fourth year in a row.
Health Reform and The States
by Kendra May, MPH
Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) last year kicked off a flurry of activity in the states — from vigorous planning to furious opposition. One thing is clear: Despite the heated anti-health reform rhetoric churning in various political and media arenas — states are progressing with implementation.
Community Health Centers And The Challenge To Help Our Nation's Heroes
by Claudia Gibson
For nearly nine years now, we’ve been watching the familiar scenes on the evening news — soldiers arriving at U.S. airports to the kisses and hugs of families and to the well-deserved cheers and applause of Americans.
IBM Centennial Serves As Backdrop for New Partnership With the Health Center Community
by Jaime Hirschfeld
NACHC has begun working with IBM to broaden the company’s work with community health centers and develop partnerships both locally and nationally that will benefit health centers and their patients.
A New Kind of Training: Cultivating Advocacy Leaders in Every Community
by Amanda Pears and Lynn Williams
In 2010 NACHC initiated the Advocacy Leadership Program (ALP) to develop and cultivate the skills of health center advocates in building a stronger grassroots movement on behalf of America’s Health Centers and their patients.
Helping Patients to Manage Chronic Disease
by The National Council on Aging
Almost half all adults have at least one chronic illness, and 50% of adults aged 65 and older have at least two.
NRM Committee Recommends New Criteria and Methodologies for Designating Medically Underserved Areas and Health Professional Shortage Areas
by Dan Hawkins
After more than a year of meetings, the Negotiated Rulemaking (NRM) Committee established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) concluded its efforts this October to develop new methodologies for designations of Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUAs/Ps).
Standards
Editor's Note
From the Chair
Super Committee's Super Powers Fail Them
Recent Regulatory and Policy Activities Impacting Your Health Center
Regional Extension Centers: Where are they and where are they going?
