RECENT
EVENTS
Click below to see press releases, summaries and pictures of recent League and community health center events and successes:
| Mar. 26, 2008 | Clinical
Quality Conference: Performance
Improvement: Reducing Health Disparities through the Care Model Presentations are available online.
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| Nov. 19, 2007 | 2007
Distinguished Community Health Champion Award Massachusetts Community Health Center representatives recently met with Congressman Michael Capuano in Boston and presented him with the National Association of Community Health Centers' "2007 Distinguished Community Health Champion Award." [More]
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| June 8, 2007 | League
hosts 'The
Ought to be in Pictures' Eight community health center employees and one statewide health care leader were honored by their colleagues at a June 8 awards gala. The annual event highlights the work and mission of community health centers, which provide primary and preventive health care to one out of every nine residents in Massachusetts. Click here to see this year's awardees. [More]
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| May 23, 2007 | League’s
Outreach and
Information Day at the State House
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| May 9-11, 2007 |
League's Annual Community Health Institute: 'Transforming Community Health: Leading Change Under Chapter 58'Implementation of the state’s sweeping health care reform law brings both opportunities and challenges for community health centers. Its hallmarks ~ comprehensive coverage for historically uninsured patients, emphasis on primary and preventive care and a focus on reducing health disparities ~ support the mission and work of health centers. Its challenges, however, are equally compelling; genuine affordability of coverage for low-income individuals, insufficient health care workforce capacity, needed resources for technology and infrastructure and adequate payment for primary care services all must be addressed to ensure its achievability. What’s more, community health centers are viewed as the keys to the law’s short- and long-term success. This increased responsibility is placing new demands on our administrative, clinical and financial operations as we continue to deliver high quality, accessible health care. This year’s Community Health Institute examined how ~ amid all the pressures and change within the state’s health system ~ we can sustain and expand our unique brand of primary care to help guarantee the promise of health care reform for all of Massachusetts’ communities. [More]
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| Mar. 26-27, 2007 | Massachusetts
Health Disparities Collaborative Outcomes Congress
The Massachusetts Health Disparities Collaborative Outcomes Congress was recently held for all Community Health Centers. This was the first opportunity to meet and learn together with all 40 of the Massachusetts health centers participating in a Health Disparities Collaborative. Going forward, these summits, or “reunions”, will be held at the state level (as opposed to the national or regional level) and will be designed with health center needs in mind. Presentations are available online at http://www.healthdisparities.net/hdc/html/files.aspx?FileLoadCategory=2007+Reunion. You will need to join the Massachusetts Virtual Office if you are not already a member.
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| Aug. 6-12, 2006 | National
Health Center Week Each year the second week of August is a special week dedicated to recognizing the service and contributions of Community, Migrant, Homeless and Public Housing Health Centers. America’s Health Centers are a nationwide network of care, with each local health center owned and directed by the very people it serves. Thanks to the health center model, people in over 4000 communities around the nation enjoy a true sense of "ownership" over their health care system. This weeklong celebration focuses the public spotlight on a community-based model of health care that is opening the doors of health and giving millions of Americans in need the chance for healthy and productive lives. [More]
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