Survey of Community and Migrant Health Center Medical Directors
Author: Glover, Saundra
Date Published: 1997
Community and Migrant Health Centers have provided primary care and preventive health services to the nation's poor and medically underserved. The CHC/MHC concept began initially as neighborhood health centers in 1965. The program was renamed the community health center program in 1975. Today, there are more than 600 Community and Migrant Health Centers in America providing primary care to under-served and medically indigent individuals. In all, the Bureau of Primary Health Care provides support for other medically underserved, disadvantaged, and high-risk and hard-to-reach populations in the U.S. and its territories more than six million individuals receive health services from more than 1,800 centers (e.g., special programs for the homeless, Alzheimer's Demonstration Grant Programs, Black Lung Clinics Programs, HIV early intervention programs, and Federally Qualified Health Center "Look-Alike" centers to name a few). The operating budget of this federally assisted enterprise surpasses $1 billion annually. This study focuses on medical directors in Community and Migrant Health Centers designated by the Bureau of Primary Health Care. The population study is limited to Migrant Health Centers under the authority of Section 329 and Community Health Centers under the authority of Section 330 of the U.S. Public Health Service Act, but these sites were not included in the study unless they also receive the 329 and/or 330 funding. Most of the CHC/MHCs have physician medical directors
Date Published: 1997
Community and Migrant Health Centers have provided primary care and preventive health services to the nation's poor and medically underserved. The CHC/MHC concept began initially as neighborhood health centers in 1965. The program was renamed the community health center program in 1975. Today, there are more than 600 Community and Migrant Health Centers in America providing primary care to under-served and medically indigent individuals. In all, the Bureau of Primary Health Care provides support for other medically underserved, disadvantaged, and high-risk and hard-to-reach populations in the U.S. and its territories more than six million individuals receive health services from more than 1,800 centers (e.g., special programs for the homeless, Alzheimer's Demonstration Grant Programs, Black Lung Clinics Programs, HIV early intervention programs, and Federally Qualified Health Center "Look-Alike" centers to name a few). The operating budget of this federally assisted enterprise surpasses $1 billion annually. This study focuses on medical directors in Community and Migrant Health Centers designated by the Bureau of Primary Health Care. The population study is limited to Migrant Health Centers under the authority of Section 329 and Community Health Centers under the authority of Section 330 of the U.S. Public Health Service Act, but these sites were not included in the study unless they also receive the 329 and/or 330 funding. Most of the CHC/MHCs have physician medical directors
