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hide. The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health ...
The Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) is a national trade association representing 82 nonprofit health plans. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ACAP advocates on behalf of its community-affiliated member health plans operating throughout the United States. ACAP's advocacy work focuses on representing publicly sponsored programs ...
Community health. Public Health Training and awareness campaign. Community health refers to non-treatment based health services that are delivered outside hospitals and clinics. Community health is a subset of public health that is taught to and practiced by clinicians as part of their normal duties. Community health volunteers and community ...
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center is a primary care center located at 356 West 18th Street in New York, New York, with satellite locations in Brooklyn and The Bronx. Callen-Lorde also provides comprehensive mental health services at The Thea Spyer Center, located at 230 West 17th Street. Callen-Lorde is dedicated to providing medical health ...
Electronic referrals. E-referrals or electronic referrals or electronic consultation is an electronic platform that enables the seamless transfer of patient information from a primary to a secondary treating practitioner's client management system. [1][2] E-referrals have fast become the best replacement of paper-based referrals, and hold great ...
Primary health care. Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. [1] Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention ...
Community Health Systems (CHS) is a Fortune 500 company based in Franklin, Tennessee. [1] It was the largest provider of general hospital healthcare services in the United States in terms of number of acute care facilities. [2] [3] In 2014, CHS had around 200 hospitals, [4] but the number had declined to around 85 in 2021. [5]
Delivery of malaria treatment by a community health worker in Djénébougou, Mali. A community health worker (CHW) is a member of a community who provides basic health and medical care within their community, and is capable of providing preventive, promotional and rehabilitation care to that community, typically without formal education equal to that of a nurse, CHO, or doctor.