WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, March 12,
at 10:00 am, Representatives from Community Health Centers will brief
Congressional staff on a bold new plan to bring primary health care
services to 30 million people by the year 2015. The ACCESS for All America
plan is being launched as 56 million people in urban and rural communities
are struggling without basic access to health care. Many of these
"medically disenfranchised" people in America have an insurance card, just
no place to go for health care largely because of a growing lack of primary
care doctors.
The Congressional staff briefing, hosted by the National Association of
Community Health Centers (NACHC) and open to the media, will coincide with
the release of a new report from NACHC and Capital Link, and Community
Health Ventures, entitled ACCESS CAPITAL: New Opportunities for Meeting
America's Primary Care Infrastructure Needs. The report will show how an
innovative effort in health care infrastructure financing will help to
launch the ACCESS plan that will help the estimated one in five Americans
who can't find a doctor to care for them today, while generating up to $41
billion in cost savings to patients, communities, insurers, and taxpayers
tomorrow. Release of the ACCESS plan comes as thousands of health center
professionals from across the nation -- including clinicians, board
members, and executives -- convene in Washington for the 2008 NACHC Policy
and Issues Forum.
WHO: Anita Monoian, Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, Yakima, WA;
James Luisi, North End Community Health Center , Boston, Massachusetts;
Gary Wiltz, MD, Teche Action Clinic, Franklin, Louisiana; Dan Hawkins,
NACHC.
WHAT: Congressional briefing, on the ACCESS for All America plan and
the release of a new NACHC report, ACCESS CAPITAL: New Opportunities for
Meeting America's Primary Care Infrastructure Needs.
WHEN: Wednesday March 12, 2008, 10: am, (doors open at 9:30 am)
WHERE: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 608, U.S. Congress
Founded in 1970, NACHC is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
enhance and expand access to quality, community-responsive health care for
America's medically underserved and uninsured. In serving its mission,
NACHC represents the nation's network of over 1,000 Federally Qualified
Health Centers (FQHCs) which serve 17 million people through 6,300 sites
located in all of the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the
U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
Capital Link is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to
assisting community health centers in planning and obtaining financing for
their building and equipment projects. Since its inception in 1998, Capital
Link has assisted health centers in leveraging $341 million in low-cost
funding for 156 projects totaling nearly $472 million and worked with 29
State Primary Care Associations to obtain an additional $340 million for
capital project grant and loan programs.
Community Health Ventures is the business development affiliate of
(NACHC). Founded in 2000, Community Health Ventures was created under the
direction of health center leadership and tasked with creating workable
solutions to the tremendous economic pressures facing today's health
centers.
CONTACT: Amy Simmons, 202-309-0338, 301-347-0476
SOURCE National Association of Community Health Centers
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http://www.nachc.com
CONTACT:
Amy Simmons of the National Association of
Community Health Centers, +1-202-309-0338, or +1-301-347-0476
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