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Empathy in Practice

One of my favorite parts of the recent NACHC Community Health Institute (CHI) in Orlando was actress Anna Deavere Smith’s opening session performance from her work “Let Me Down Easy,” a series of monologues based on interviews with people about their experiences with the health care system.

Empathy in Practice

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Emerging Leader Awards 3

Going back decades, to the first health centers founded by Dr. H. Jack Geiger and Dr. Count Gibson, our nation’s community health centers have emphasized both access to affordable care and engaged in extensive efforts to improve the underlying social conditions that affect health. Each year, the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) honors young professionals currently working in the field of community health.

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Migrant Health Centers: Historical Documents

Documents relevant to the history of Migrants Health Centers.

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CHroniCles Beat: Honoring the Migrant Health Program and the Workers it Serves

This year’s conference marked the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Migrant Health Act and honored the historic first comprehensive efforts to provide health services to the migrant farm worker population in the U.S.

CHroniCles Beat: Honoring the Migrant Health Program and the Workers it Serves

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Early Health Center Program Documents

The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), was founded in 1971 as the National Association of Neighborhood Health Centers.

Early Health Center Program Documents

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Special Populations: Health Care for the Homeless

Health centers provide care to all members of their communities, including those who may be homeless.

Special Populations: Health Care for the Homeless

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Migrant and Farmworker Contemporary Photos

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Part 3: The OEO and the early champions of neighborhood health centers

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CHC History Photo Slideshow

View historical photos of Community Health Centers around the country.

CHC History Photo Slideshow

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Emerging Leader Awards

Each year, the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) honors young professionals currently working in the field of community health.

Emerging Leader Awards
Community Health Centers Deliver

Across America, COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS DELIVER. In our new video, health center leaders across the U.S. reflect on the founding and ongoing work of their organizations and the continued importance of the community health center movement.

Community Health Centers Deliver
Part 1: Dr. H Jack Geiger and Dr. John Hatch on the Earliest CHCs

Dr. Jack Geiger and Dr. John Hatch discuss the Community Health Center Movement.

Part 1: Dr. H Jack Geiger and Dr. John Hatch on the Earliest CHCs

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Who’s Counting on You to Stay Healthy” – Comprehensive Insurance Outreach and Enrollment in Maine

Who’s Counting on You to Stay Healthy” – Comprehensive Insurance Outreach and Enrollment in Maine

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Community Health Centers: Chronicling Their History and Broader Meaning

In 1965 the nation’s first community health centers were launched as a small demonstration program as part of the President Johnson’s Office of Economic Opportunity.

Community Health Centers: Chronicling Their History and Broader Meaning

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Emerging Leader Awards

Going back decades, to the first health centers founded by Dr. H. Jack Geiger and Dr. Count Gibson, our nation’s community health centers have emphasized both access to affordable care and engaged in extensive efforts to improve the underlying social conditions that affect health. Each year, the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) honors young professionals currently working in the field of community health.

Emerging Leader Awards

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Full Circle: Dr. Ethan Gable’s journey from patient to Chief Medical Officer at Jericho Road

Dr. Ethan Gable was a patient at what was then known as Jericho Road Family Practice (JRFP) when he was a child. Then a family practice located in upstate New York, JRFP served the area’s vulnerable refugees and underserved, low-income communities. Back then, he never entertained the idea that he himself would become a doctor.

Full Circle: Dr. Ethan Gable’s journey from patient to Chief Medical Officer at Jericho Road
Cutting-Edge Technology and Good, Old Fashioned Caring in Rural Upstate New York

Finger Lakes Community Health serves over 17,000 patients in upstate New York. Established in 1989 as a Migrant Health Clinic, they became designated as a federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in 2009 and have experienced tremendous growth as an organization in a few short years.

Cutting-Edge Technology and Good, Old Fashioned Caring in Rural Upstate New York

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Daniel Zwick: The Community Action program and early activist neighborhood health reform

Daniel Zwick: The Community Action program and early activist neighborhood health reform
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Health care for the Homeless

Health Care for the Homeless programs emphasize integrated and multi-disciplinary care to address the myriad health problems faced by the homeless, exacerbated by their lack of permanent housing.

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Part 1: The OEO and the early champions of neighborhood health centers

Lisbeth "Lee" Schorr, from the Community Action Program at OEO discusses the origins of the community health center movement.

Part 1: The OEO and the early champions of neighborhood health centers

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Closing the Coverage Gap – On the Ground in Texas

An October, 2013 policy brief from the Geiger Gibson / RCHN CHF Research Collaborative “Assessing the Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Uninsured Community Health Center Patients: A Nationwide and State-By-State Analysis” outlines the impact in those 26 states that were not planning to go forward with Medicaid expansion.

Closing the Coverage Gap – On the Ground in Texas

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Community Health Centers: Identifying and Responding to Human Trafficking

Community Health Centers: Identifying and Responding to Human Trafficking
Eye on the Movement: Alan Pogue Documents Migrant Farmworkers

Photographs and oral history by Human Rights and Peace Activist Alan Pogue.

Eye on the Movement: Alan Pogue Documents Migrant Farmworkers

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CHCs Respond to the Zika Crisis in Puerto Rico

CHCs Respond to the Zika Crisis in Puerto Rico

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Tackling Access Barriers, In Three Languages

Monmouth Family Medical Center (MFMC) is located in Long Branch, NJ, a small city situated along the Jersey Shore, and a popular summer destination for those from the New York and New Jersey metro area as well as more local communities.

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Patient Advocates – Opening Doors to Health Care

Located a short ride away from Manhattan, off the Hudson River, Open Door feels far removed from the big city.

Patient Advocates – Opening Doors to Health Care

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A Subway Tour and a Glimpse at Two CHCs in New York City

Of New York’s 60 community health centers that provide care to the underserved throughout the State, 27 are located in New York City.

A Subway Tour and a Glimpse at Two CHCs in New York City

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Community Health Center Programs

Community, Migrant, Homeless, and Public Housing Health Centers are non-profit, community-directed health care providers serving low income and medically underserved communities.

Community Health Center Programs
Part 2: The OEO and the early champions of neighborhood health centers

Part 2: The OEO and the early champions of neighborhood health centers

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ACA Outreach and enrollment in the Mississippi Delta – Increasing Access in a Non Medicaid Expansion State

Mississippi, a place with perhaps the greatest need for more investment in health care, is one of 24 states that are not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

ACA Outreach and enrollment in the Mississippi Delta – Increasing Access in a Non Medicaid Expansion State
Advocating Healthcare Equity for LGBT Patients Through Compassionate and Culturally Competent Care

Each year, the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) recognizes young Emerging Leaders in community health.

Advocating Healthcare Equity for LGBT Patients Through Compassionate and Culturally Competent Care

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Community Health Centers: Caring for People - Benefitting the Communities

An infographic showing the scope of Community Health Centers.

Community Health Centers: Caring for People - Benefitting the Communities

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Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty

In Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty, historian Dr. Thomas J. Ward Jr., professor and chair of the History Department at Spring Hill College (Mobile, Alabama) explores the origins of the community health center movement through the story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

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Special Populations: Public Housing Primary Care Program

The PHPC is a federal grant program created in 1990 under the Disadvantaged Minority Health Improvement Act to “provide for the delivery of primary care services, referrals, and health counseling and education services to residents of public housing.”

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Changing Care, Changing Lives- The Community Health Center Story

A new video features interview segments with health center leaders across the U.S. who reflect upon the history, mission and growth of their organizations and the community health center movement as a whole.

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A Peoples Movement: Massachusetts Community Health Centers’ Historic Fight for Access

Today, there are 37 federally qualified community health centers throughout Massachusetts, a large number relative to the state’s population and geographic size. This is no accident, and reflects the long-standing history of health care activism in the state.

A Peoples Movement: Massachusetts Community Health Centers’ Historic Fight for Access

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The First Rural CHC (Mound Bayou, Mississippi)

The Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, which recently opened a new state-of-the-art facility, launched in 1967 as the first rural health center in the United States.

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Collaborating Partners

The RCHN Community Health Foundation is a not-for-profit operating foundation established to support community health centers through strategic investment, outreach, education, and cutting-edge health policy research.

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Community Health Centers and Veterans Health

The number of veterans served by community health centers has increased by 43 percent in less than 10 years. This finding and other data presented in the infographic indicate that community health center locations help improve access to care for veterans across the country.

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Special Populations: Migrant Health Centers

The oldest of all laws that have come to comprise the modern health centers program, The Migrant Health Act, signed in to law by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, authorized the development and support of clinical health care services for migrant farmworkers and their families.

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Mentoring the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders at Charles B. Wang Community Health Center

For over 40 years, the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center (CBWCHC) has provided high quality, culturally sensitive and affordable care to the Asian-American community in New York City.

Mentoring the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders at Charles B. Wang Community Health Center

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CHC Movement: A National Program, Building on Local Roots

While the history of health centers is, in many respects, understood one health center at a time, health centers also can be thought of as a rich tapestry and a means by which millions of residents of the nation’s medically underserved communities and populations have joined together to make themselves heard.

CHC Movement: A National Program, Building on Local Roots

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Migrant and Farmworker Historical Photos

View historical photos documented throughout the years.

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Phase One of ACA Implementation: RCHN-CHF Grantees Enroll Thousands

In December 2013, the RCHN Community Health Foundation launched its Outreach & Enrollment Initiative, funding new projects at Primary Care Associations and community health centers in five states.

Phase One of ACA Implementation: RCHN-CHF Grantees Enroll Thousands

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