Bronx Community Based Health Centers Celebrate National Health Center Week
Contact:, health care , - Fred Yaeger Emma Perrott (914) 423-7972 August 5, 2004 - Bronx Community Based Health Centers Celebrate National Health Center Week Community Health Centers to reach at-risk and delivering quality products Health Care Health Centers are business and economic anchor in the Community, health care , Community, health care , based health centers are non-profit healthcare practices that expanded primary health care and specialist care in neighborhoods in the Bronx that medically underserved. Besides the essential medical care they provide, the health centers are also economic and business anchors, because they provide a modern and to medical facilities and employment in the community where they are located in and serving date, health care , . The health centers and the management of care plans participating are: Morris Heights Health Center, Sound View Health Care Network,, health care , Mercy Community Care, Promesa, Martin Luther King Health Center Incorporated, Urban Health Plan, health care , Incorporated, Institute for Urban Family Health, Comprehensive Family Care Center, Hunts Point Multiservice Center, Bronx Community Health Network, Montefiore Comprehensive Health Center, Affinity, center care, Health Plus and Health First.Community health, health care , centers make a real difference in the lives of the people they serve. The centers provide a wide range, health care , of primary and preventive care in a one-stop-oriented, health care , framework that meet community needs. Services include: physician care, laboratory, case management, transportation for health care, preventive services (mammography, good child, etc.), x-ray, vaccinations, family planning, translation services, health care , and special references. Some Community health centers offer dental care, behavioral health hospital and physician services. They also offer support services designed for patients to access health care help through outreach, health care, transportation, translation services and case management. The specialty of community health centers has always been their ability to reach at-risk populations and provide quality health care. In the state of New York, for example, 68% of the patients served by health centers have incomes below the federal poverty level. More than 67% of the patients served are members of racial or ethnic minorities, 33.4% of Health Center patients are African American, 33.3% are Hispanic / Latino and 27.9% are white. Health centers provide care to people of all ages: 11.5% are younger than 5 years, 15.8% are between the ages of 5-12 years, 11.7% are between the ages of 13-19 years, 8, 0% between 20-24, 28.3% are between 25-44 years old, 17.7% are between 45-64 years old and7.0% are 65 years or older. Health control healthcare costs by providing primary and preventive services, making the need for, health care , more expensive, health care , hospital care in the future. It is estimated that health centers save nearly 3 billion U.S. dollars per year in combined federal and state Medicaid spending due to reduced special care referrals and fewer hospital admissions. The need to support National, health care , Health Center Week "could not come at a more critical time, as health unprecedented pressure on the budget and record patient demand face. At the same time, tens of thousands of New Yorkers lost their health insurance benefits and are now faced with, health care , reduced health care options and forced to take cash out of pocket health care costs, health care , . Nearly one million new uninsured patients nationwide have sought care, health care , at health centers in the past three years. Some health centers are reporting uninsured patients increased to 73 percent. Health centers are also facing cuts in Medicaid, health care , or roll backs to qualify, with national budget deficits. There are not enough health centers for people who need them.
