Health Affairs October 11, 2023
Basim Khan, Sara Rosenbaum

Over 1,400 community health centers (CHCs) working in 15,000 rural and urban communities and serving over 30 million people are awaiting congressional action around the Community Health Center Fund. CHCs depend on this Fund, which is essential not only to health centers but also to the National Health Service Corps (NHSC), which deploys medical and health professionals to critical shortage areas, and the teaching health centers (THCs) program, which trains the next generation of primary care clinicians. All three programs are vital, and all three enjoy broad bipartisan support.

President Biden’s FY 2024 budget proposed to extend the fund for three years beyond its 2023 expiration date and to substantially increase funding in order to strengthen the three programs’ size...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Primary care, Provider
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