You can enjoy a healthy lifestyle with a manageable amount of expense this spring. Here are some ways to take care of your health without breaking the bank, thanks to HealthNet’s Health Promotions staff: Grow your own fruits and vegetables in your yard, patio containers, or a community garden space. Use store brand instead of [...]
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Health Centers: Two Studies and an Idea
An article released yesterday on Newswise about two George Washington University reports covered two very important things – health center expansion and Medicaid’s role in strengthening health center operations. The past few weeks, we have been asking health center patients, community supporters, and YOU (our online community) to sign a petition supporting community health center [...]
Sign our Petition & Help our Health Center Colors Shine Through in Indianapolis!
Our petition drive starts TODAY!! Did you know? Health centers throughout the nation are the health care homes for over 20 million Americans. Did you know? There are STILL almost 60 million Americans, even those with insurance, who do NOT have access to health care. Did you know? Health centers’ average cost runs $1 less [...]
Ending 2011 on an Advocacy High-Note for ALL Community Health Centers!
At a time when health centers are seeing ever increasing demand for their services in rural and urban communities across the country, we are grateful that Congress has responded with this bipartisan bill which begins to address that need! – Tom Van Coverden, President & CEO of NACHC. Congress passed the 2012 Omnibus Appropriations Act! [...]
CALL TO ACTION!! Time to talk to our Senators!
Almost a month ago, we asked you to contact your U.S. Representative to submit a programmatic request supporting the Community Health Centers Program. Today, we’re in the midst of the same process, only we are switching to the other side of Capitol Hill. The deadline for SENATORS to submit a programmatic request is THIS FRIDAY, [...]
Take 5 — Make a Difference for Indy TODAY
Construction workers are transforming the land next to HealthNet Barrington Health Centeron Indy’s southeast side into a sleek, two-story “medical home” that will significantly expand the center’s capacity to provide regular checkups, dental work, and therapy for the city’s poorest residents. Yet even as welders and electricians prepare the building for its late 2011 opening, [...]
Three ways to keep advocating for FQHC funding, even in the face of FY2011 cuts!
Community Health Center funding was cut by $600 million dollars when legislators finally came to an agreement on the federal budget last week. [T]his major reduction will — in this year alone — negate the ability to provide basic health care services to over 5 million of our most vulnerable Americans, and will seriously undermine [...]
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