HRSA announced today that their Women’s Health USA 2011 data report is now available. This tenth edition includes more detailed demographic breakdowns by ethnicity and sexual orientation and a number of new topics such as preconception health, oral health care utilization and barriers to health care for women.
Access the full report here.
View HRSA’s announcement here.
Announced yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services, $42M in funding from the Affordable Care Act will go to improve the coordination and quality of care for Medicare patients across the nation. Funds will be distributed over the next three years to 500 FQHC’s in 44 states. This new Advanced Primary Care Practice demonstration program will fund increased coordination, quality of care and services as well as an improved payment system that will reward clinics for their efforts to help patients with a variety of things, including management of chronic illness.
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The Department of Health and Human Services announced today that membership in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) has nearly tripled in the past three years due to significant investments in the program from the Affordable Care Act, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and annual appropriations under the Obama administration. The NHSC has been able to award $900 million in loan repayments and scholarships to new health care professionals, encouraging development of the health care workforce. It is estimated that the NHSC has grown from 3,600 Corps providers serving 3.7 million patients in 2008 to more than 10,000 Corps clinicians providing health care services to about 10.5 million patients in 2011.
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An article in today’s Washington Post outlined how health centers across the nation will be affected by deficit cuts to health center funding. Despite the wave of new funding that has been announced in the past few months for health centers and the millions awarded, hundreds of organizations seeking funding have had to look elsewhere for support.
Also announced today was $19.3M in funding for primary care physician and physician assistant training through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This funding will support programs that educate and train primary care service providers in effort to boost the workforce.
Read the full Washington Post article here.
View the HHS Workforce Training Announcement here.