Community health centers can help close the care gap
Washington approved the debt deal; so what comes next? Now our elected officials must determine how and where the budget ax will fall. One of the obvious contenders is the long debated U.S. health care system, and it will likely fall victim to this debt deal in one way or another. As the debate continues, I urge you to take this time to learn not only about our failing health care system, but about community health centers, in particular how they function and how they can help close the health care gap.
Nationwide, community health centers operate more than 7,900 locations and serve more than 20 million patients, the majority of whom have low incomes, are uninsured or publicly insured and are members of racial/ethnic minority groups. As a Houstonian and executive director of Legacy Community Health Services, I can tell you that the data on community health centers will defy your preconceived notions of what it means to provide comprehensive primary and preventive health care as well as social services to medically underserved families and individuals. I encourage you to keep reading with an open mind.
Among many others, there are four distinct advantages of supporting community health centers:
1. Reduction of the burden on emergency rooms. When given access to a community health center, emergency rooms see a lower utilization of primary-care-related visits. This means people are going to local health care providers such as Legacy Community Health Services instead of using the emergency room for treatment of everyday illnesses like fever or ear infections. And yet, while more than 80 percent of our patients live below the poverty line, our experience is these individuals demonstrate fiscal responsibility with self-pay and account for 9 percent of Legacy's total revenue.
2. Economic development. Community health centers revitalize the economies of medically underserved areas. For example, in 2008, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in Texas stimulated more than $816 million in total economic output. Legacy, an FQHC, alone injected $16.4 million of operating expenditures directly into Houston's economy and had an overall impact of $32 million.
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If you or someone in your family has been diagnosed with a chronic condition such as cardiovascular disease, asthma, depression, HIV or diabetes, community health centers' efforts have led to improved health outcomes for patients, as well as lowering
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