Fiscal Note
No appropriation required.
Title
Proclaiming August 11 through 17, 2013, as "National Health Center Week" and recognizing Access Community Health Centers.
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WHEREAS, America's community health centers are at the core of our health care system and the nation’s safety net, delivering high quality, cost effective, and accessible primary and preventive care to all individuals regardless of their ability to pay, and,
WHEREAS, Madison is served by Access Community Health Centers with three locations in the area providing preventive and primary care, and dental care that families and individuals need, where and when they need it, and,
WHEREAS, Health centers are located in medically underserved areas and locally-controlled by patient-majority boards, making each health center responsive to the needs of the individual community it serves, and,
WHEREAS, Access Community Health Centers employs 224 care giving and support professionals including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse midwives, along with social workers, case managers, and community health workers, as part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team designed to treat the whole patient, coordinating care and managing chronic disease, at the same time reducing unnecessary, avoidable and wasteful use of health resources, and,
WHEREAS, in 2012 Madison’s Access Community Healthcare centers served 25,062 patients with medical, dental, behavioral health and pharmacy services; and,
WHEREAS, this health home model that health centers are at the fore of pioneering goes beyond primary medical care, providing behavioral health and dental services, along with case management and enabling services that ensure that care is provided in an efficient and timely manner, and,
WHEREAS, the health center model has been proven to be an effective means of overcoming barriers to access for the medically underserved and in doing so, improving health care outcomes and reducing heal...
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