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Federal Grants are Essential to Community Health Centers

WEBCommunity health centers (CHCs) are the nation’s largest primary health care system for medically underserved communities and populations. In 2021, CHCs …

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Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Milken Institute …

WEBEstablished in 2004, the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health is named in honor of Drs. H. Jack Geiger and Count Dillon Gibson, pioneers in community health practice …

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Community Health Centers in Financial Jeopardy Without …

WEBCommunity health centers (CHCs) are the backbone of the primary care safety net, providing care to all regardless of ability to pay. In 2022, health centers …

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One Year After Medicaid Unwinding Began, Community Health …

WEBThis Study . This study goes behind the impact data to more deeply understand how Medicaid loss is affecting health centers and their patients. To conduct …

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Community Health Center Funding Needed to Preserve and …

WEBWhile CHCs rely on a mix of revenue streams to cover the cost of health care services, federal CHC grants remain essential. These grants are intended to cover the …

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70. Strengthening Community Health Centers’ Role in Early …

WEBWhat We Know About the Effectiveness of Child Development. Childhood development services consist of several basic components: ongoing assessments of …

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Policy Brief Series Geiger Gibson Program The George …

WEBReporting on the findings of an in depth study in 12 sates, the Geiger Gibson Program explores the shift by community health centers to value based and alternative …

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The Potential Effect of Medicaid Unwinding on Community Health …

WEBBackground. In order to provide relief from the health and economic harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act …

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Webinar Series Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health

WEBThe Geiger Gibson Program webinar series, part of its robust policy education offerings, focuses on key policy issues and research relevant to health centers.

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Program Faculty & Staff

WEBFeygele Jacobs. Feygele Jacobs, DrPH, MS, MPH serves as Director of the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health and Professor of Health Policy and Management.Prior to …

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About Dr. H. Jack Geiger and Dr. Count Gibson

WEBDr. Count Gibson was a social justice activist and pioneer of early health centers. At the beginning of Geiger’s search for community health center funding, Gibson was the …

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Community Health Center Financing: The Role of Medicaid and …

WEBSince their 1965 beginning as a small War on Poverty experiment, community health centers have matured into a principal part of the health system for thousands of …

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Data Note: Three in Four Community Health Centers Are Engaged …

WEBBackground. From their earliest days, community health centers have been designed to address the social determinants of health (SDoH) by bridging patient-level …

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The Value Proposition: Evidence of the Health and Economic

WEBCapital Link estimated that, in 2014, health centers accounted for 170,000 jobs in health centers plus 169,000 more in other sectors. Collectively, they generated …

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Puerto Rico’s Community Health Centers

WEBGeiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative 7 As shown in Figure 1, in 2016, health centers provided over 1.53 million visits for medical, dental, …

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The State of Recovery: An Update on Community Health …

WEBGeiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative 5 NOTE: Percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding. SOURCE: GW analysis of data …

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Opportunities and Challenges for Medicaid Managed Care …

WEB5 This qualitative study follows on findings from our review of the most recently available state Medicaid contracts10 and our assessment of SDoH activities across 10 contractual …

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Community Health Centers’ Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

WEBSince January 2021, community health centers have reported that nearly 9 million patients initiated vaccination, almost 8.5 million completed their vaccine series, …

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