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Health Reform:
“As Congress pauses to catch
it’s collective breath before a jam-packed July session, we
thought we’d take a quick look at the bottom line on
where things stand, how it
affects health centers, and what YOUR Member of Congress needs
to hear from you."
- NACHC’s John Sawyer, blogging at
Health Centers on the Hill
Check to see whether your
senators and
representatives have
co-sponsored the health center/health reform resolution, and if
they haven’t, use the
NACHC Grassroots Action Center
to ask for their support as a cosponsor TODAY!! More on the
continuing health reform debate:
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Front and Center: Health Centers Testify on Health Reform
(Health Centers on the Hill)
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Health Centers (re)Testify on Health Reform
(Health Centers on the Hill)
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NACHC Supports Coverage, Access Proposals
(NACHC media release)
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Real Advocacy Comes from Commitment
(Health Center Advocacy in Action)
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Don't Forget Appropriations:
“This year, our advocacy
efforts around appropriations are perhaps more important
than ever before – and that is not overstating the situation.” –
- NACHC’s Kaitlin McColgan, blogging at
Health Centers on the Hill.
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Stimulus Grand Openings This Week:
Peru, IN today and
Show Low, AZ on Wednesday! If you know of a new location
that has opened its doors or is about to thanks to ARRA funding,
let us know.
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Free Tools for Boosting Health Center Volunteer Roles:
"The United Health Foundation, Capital Link, and VolunteerMatch
have partnered to create an exciting
opportunity for health centers to access volunteers.”– from
Capital Link.
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Media Spotlight:
"Few (opinion pieces) are as
effective as this one at telling the story of Community Health
Centers.
Nebraska’s Lincoln Journal Star
published an op-ed by Dr. Maryam Mahmoodian, Medical Director at
People’s Health Center, that says it all.”
– NACHC’s Beau Boughamer, blogging at
Health Center News and Happenings
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North Carolina:
Providing Care to the Uninsured in Durham
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IA,
more
NC,
OH,
SC,
WI
news
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Tweet of the Week:
@CodmanHealthCtr Tmrw is Nat'l HIV Testing Day. Codman
Square offers free confidential walk-in testing. For other
testing sites:
http://www.hivtest.org
(from Saturday).
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Quote of the Week:
"Community Health
Centers, I believe, are the cheapest way to get the country on a
prevention track. I would say it's the only way to get the
country on a prevention track." –
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC)
Source:
NACHC Newsletter, 6/29/2009 |
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