...based on income. Community Health Centers are the safety net provider for a multitude of people and is the largest network of safety net primary care providers. Community Health Centers have also benefitted from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which gave $2billion to CHC's over two years which resulted in serving 2.1 million new patients. Following the passing of the Afforrdable Care Act, more focus was shifted to primary and preventative care. The goals of imporving access and quality to care will be focused through community health centers to create a more effficient system. By creating more access to primary care services, health care costs will decrese because by serving more new patients we ccan help them avoid the emergnecy room and instead go to their primary care provider. The Community Health Center Fund built into the ACA will give $11 billion to help CHC's increase their numbers and size as well as help create more efficient infrastructure to better serve the...
Words: 2213 - Pages: 9