Data & Maps: Provides key health center data and maps by state as well as nationally.
Health Centers in the Literature: Summaries of studies on health center access, quality of care, cost effectiveness, and health care disparities.
Tools & Resources: Tools include research collaboration information, community engagement information, health center mapping atlas, and research meetings and agenda.
Links: To affiliated organizations and government websites.
Are you interested in conducting research with NACHC or health centers? Please review NACHC's Research Collaboration Policy.
Contact research@nachc.org for more information
.jpg){kind=small}
Health Wanted: The State of Unmet Need for Primary Health Care in America: The U.S. may have one of the most technologically advanced health care systems in the world, yet millions of residents suffer from unmet health care needs and even preventable deaths. This report describes why so many Americans experience difficulties in accessing primary care, and the far-reaching health and cost consequences when people and communities are shut out of preventive medicine. This report also underscores one proven solution to unmet primary care needs - America's Community Health Centers - and the overwhelming demand for their services. An accompanying chartpack featuring the report's figures and maps may be found here.
Access Endangered: Profiles of the Medically Disenfranchised: The report profiles health center patients who are struggling and the communitites that are suffering from record levels of unemployment and increasing poverty. They are the people who are most at risk to losing access to care under proposed budget cuts and changes to the Medicaid program. For every $1 million in federal funding cuts, health centers lose the capacity to serve over 8,200 patients. The NACHC report demonstrates that these are the patients that are most in need and vulnerable to budget cuts.
Community Health Centers as a Local Prescription for Improving Quality and Lowering Costs: The issue brief tells the story of the health center payoff and underscores how health centers are a proven solution of a nation searching for better returns in health care delivery. Only with continued investment can they double in capacity, nearly triple the savings they bring to the health care system, and accumulate two and a half times the amount of economic growth.
