Wednesday, May 6, 2015

50th Anniversary of Community Health Centers

 

America's Health Centers, Celebrating 50 Years

"In 2015, America’s Health Centers will celebrate 50 years of success in expanding access to quality and affordable primary and preventive healthcare services to millions of uninsured and medically underserved people nationwide." (http://chchistory.nachc.org/)

Learn about the legacy, the impact and the future of community health centers in the National Association of Community Health centers' great article "Community Health Centers Past, Present, and Future: Building on 50 Years of Success" here.

 

Ohio Community Health Centers

In 2014 Ohio community health centers served nearly 574,000 patients and staffed over 3,000 full-time equivalents. Also, our Ohio CHCs had over 1.9 million patient visits! 

Learn more about Ohio community health centers here

Community health centers provide such valuable resources for all people across the state. Ohio currently has 44 community health center organizations, equaling 222 CHC sites across the state.  73% of our CHC organizations have at least one health center that is PCMH recognized!


Learn about PCMH here