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1 | December 2023 Funding Push | ||||||
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3 | House & Senate Please Pass $ | @Member of Congress, please work to pass a bipartisan bill to ensure high levels of funding for health centers and the primary care workforce before Jan 19, 2024, when current funding ends. Your constituents' health and access to care are too valuable to risk! 🏥🛡️ #ValueCHCs |  | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qQbYSuP_9SNYvG1YXn_-bul_kBA942KA/view?usp=share_link | We ask that Senator/Representative [_] work across the aisle to pass bipartisan legislation to extend health center and primary care workforce programs at the highest possible levels before funding expires on January 19, 2024. | ||
4 | House & Senate - remember what we do for your constituents! | Community Health Centers are the largest primary & preventive care network in the nation. Our longstanding partnership with Congress ensures trusted providers of high-quality care for thousands nationwide. 📣 Tell Congress TODAY to #ValueCHCs: bit.ly/4a0w4Mm |  | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mDMLpJLufQGrgzaw7YILR0VuHNQzYwnR/view?usp=sharing | As the largest primary care network in the nation, Community Health Centers are proud of the longstanding bipartisan support for our mission of providing access to high-quality care for all Americans. | ||
5 | CHCs role in Congressional districts | Community Health Centers' care by design meets the unique characteristics of people they serve. 40% of CHCs serve people living in rural communities and 2/3 serve racial/ethnic minority groups. CHCs strengthen local communities physically, emotionally & economically! #ValueCHCs |  | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VDu18Q2jyaq9Maa4NIP6oqAVtqREIVfO/view?usp=sharing | Health centers are the best, most diverse, and most innovative part of the health care system – serving patients from all backgrounds and in different communities, from small towns to big cities – with over 40 percent of patients being from rural communities and two-thirds from racial and/or ethnic minority groups. | ||
6 | Call to Advocates | Primary care education programs encourage students to train & invest in underserved communities. Ask Congress to fund the Teaching Health Centers Graduate Medical Education & National Health Service Corps. 💪 Strong nation = access to trusted care providers. #ValueCHCs |  | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d0rmDNuU52BCv5aT3P-qr4FURFaEruP3/view?usp=drive_link | The National Health Service Corps and Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education programs are essential to encourage more students and residents to enter the primary care workforce and practice in underserved areas where workforce shortages are most acute. | ||
7 | Call to Invest in Primary Care | Community Health Center supporters know that local communities are healthier and stronger when we invest in preventative health care jobs. Tell Congress to increase and pass long-term, stable funding to protect health care jobs in our communities: bit.ly/4a0w4Mm #ValueCHCs |  | https://drive.google.com/file/d/19tpOhV8o-qpHtn7fpZcACUfi1Vc-klre/view?usp=sharing | Given the importance of the health center and primary care workforce funding, NACHC has supported multiple bipartisan approaches to extend and increase funding. | ||
8 | Funding Deadline looming | Two pieces of legislation in Congress would increase and provide stable, predictable funding for health centers to effectively serve our communities. ❗Tell Congress to #ValueCHCs: bit.ly/4a0w4Mm |  | patients - C | This includes the House Lower Costs, More Transparency Act and the Senate Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act. | ||
9 | CHCs role in Congressional districts | 31+ million patients, including nearly 9 million children, 3.5 million seniors, and 400,000 veterans, depend on Community Health Centers as their healthcare home. We must💲fund health centers to ensure EVERYONE has access to care! #ValueCHCs |  | Any lapse in funding would dramatically increase uncertainty for health centers, complicate their ability to plan for patients’ needs, and undermine their ability to recruit and retain providers in a competitive labor market. | |||
10 | CHCs role in Congressional districts | 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣+ MILLION Americans have difficulty accessing a primary care provider. Community Health Centers and primary care workforce programs are essential to closing that gap, but can only continue with long-term, stable funding. Tell Congress to #ValueCHCs: bit.ly/4a0w4Mm |  | https://drive.google.com/file/d/14rdQe0jTlIX2tSa65ic14EEla5a4MkZT/view?usp=sharing | With increased and stable funding, health centers can expand our efforts to: - Retain and recruit essential health care providers and support staff. - Reach more underserved and rural communities to provide better primary care. - Deliver increased access to behavioral health and dental health services. | ||
11 | CHCs role in Congressional districts | 1 in every 11 Americans depends on a Community Health Center as a trusted and reliable source of affordable health care. We have accomplished this by partnering with Congress. 🏛️🤝🏥 Tell Congress to vote to pass funding for CHCs: bit.ly/4a0w4Mm #ValueCHCs |  | patients - A | The cost of inaction by Congress to extend and increase health center funding would be substantial in communities nationwide. Funding primary care from one continuing resolution to the next jeopardizes the stability of the health center workforce and sacrifices the ability of health centers to serve additional patients. | ||
12 | House & Senate Please Pass $ | Congress has stood with local communities to help provide primary care & other essential services for 5️⃣0️⃣+ years. Our community depends on the jobs & income we generate and the care we provide. Ask Congress to continue funding health centers: https://bit.ly/CHCfundingHR5378 #ValueCHCs |  | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TpOTVq9LTgC3nTlRRrDQirVCGMKUSeQF/view?usp=drive_link | More than 31 million patients, including nearly 9 million children, 3.5 million seniors, and 400,000 veterans, depend on Community Health Centers as their healthcare home. | ||
13 | Health centers successfully deliver comprehensive preventative primary care in efficient outpatient settings, resulting in long-term savings to the health system. Research has shown that health centers save billions through reducing avoidable ER visits and preventable hospital admissions. | ||||||
14 | More than 100 million Americans have difficulty accessing a primary care provider, and Community Health Centers and primary care workforce programs are essential to closing that gap. | ||||||
15 | Health centers are also leading the way in implementing innovative workforce development programs to support health care careers in your district/state. Many of these successful programs could be scaled up with federal support. | ||||||
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