Evidence shows patients choose health centers because they are convenient, affordable, provide quality care and offer a range of services from a team of caring professionals. This would have affected hundreds of families in our community.
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“How to prevent illnesses before someone becomes sick”, says Jolly, “is a huge cost savings to individuals and to the health care system overall”.
“With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, health centers have taken on an even larger role in our nation’s health care system by helping more than 10 million people learn about their options for affordable health coverage and providing a health care home to numerous newly insured”, said the HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, in a blog post. Today, health centers serve more than 23 million Americans, including about seven million children and 260,000 veterans in more than 9,200 communities across the country. “These awards mean that more communities than ever can count on a health center to help meet the increasing demand for primary care”. Each community health center is unique and through innovative models is working to deliver services to Nevadans in need. Northern Nevada HOPES has a monthly food drive and regularly helps the homeless.
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There are health centers such as ours across the country that save the U.S. health care system more than $24 billion every year via preventable hospitalizations and avoidable emergency room visits. Were it not for the leadership of Louisiana’s congressional delegation, thousands of families across our state would have lost access to these vital health care services. Today, we are grateful for their support and are using National Health Center Week 2015 (August 9-15) to thank them for their hard work.
