HRSA's FY 2007 Budget Will Complete President's
Health Center Initiative
HRSA's FY 2007 appropriation, signed into law Feb. 15 by President Bush, includes an increase of more than $200 million for health centers. Those funds will allow HRSA to complete a six-year push to meet the goals of the President's Health Center Initiative: to improve access to health care in over 1,200 communities through the support of new or expanded health center access points.
The additional health center funds for 2007 will support some 300 health center awards to expand medical capacity or create new health center access points. Up to 120 of those 300 awards will support a new Presidential initiative to establish access points in high-poverty counties that currently do not have access to health center providers. |
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"With this new Presidential initiative, HRSA will work to spread the benefits of quality primary health care to every poor county in America that can support a health center site," said HRSA Administrator Betty Duke.
Through FY 2006, HRSA's oversight of the President's Health Center Initiative has resulted in:
- the creation of 514 new access points;
- the provision of 385 grants to significantly expand the medical capacity of existing service delivery sites; and
- the award of more than 340 grants to existing grantee organizations to add or expand oral health, mental health and substance abuse services.
About 1,000 health center grantees, most with multiple delivery sites, provide primary care and support services to patients regardless of their ability to pay. Charges for health care services are set according to income, and fees are not collected from the poorest patients. In FY 2005, health centers served 14.1 million patients, about 40 percent of whom had no insurance coverage.
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