Guest Commentary: Community health centers, America’s largest primary-care network, are in jeopardy

The Community Health Centers Fund expired Oct. 1. It accounts for 70% of all federal grants for community health centers. As America’s largest primary-care network, CHCs are crucial for many of America’s most medically underserved children and families, especially those living in rural areas. Unless Congress acts, these drastic cuts will negatively affect millions of

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Public charge rule is a cruel attack on children

The Trump administration marked this year’s first day of fall with an outrageous new proposal, titled “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds,” that will further harm already vulnerable immigrant children and families. For the first time in our country’s history, an immigrant’s use of public benefits programs like Medicaid, food stamps and Section 8 housing, may

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Children’s Health Fund Welcomes New EVP/CMO

NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Children’s Health Fund (CHF) is thrilled to welcome Elizabeth Goodman, MD, MBA, as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer (EVP/CMO) to further the organization’s overall mission of ensuring high quality healthcare for America’s most disadvantaged children. Dr. Goodman joins CHF during its 30th anniversary year in which the nonprofit has

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International Medical Corps and Children’s Health Fund Collaborating on Response to Hurricane Florence

Children’s Health Fund is thrilled to be partnering with International Medical Corps in this response, and those to come,” said Dennis Walto, CEO of Children’s Health Fund. “Bringing together International Medical Corps’ global and domestic emergency-response capacity and Children’s Health Fund’s pediatric expertise and mobility will enable us to provide children and families affected by

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Key Executive Joins Children’s Health Fund Board

New York) – Children’s Health Fund, which brings high-quality health care to some of the country’s most disadvantaged children, is pleased to welcome a new member to its board of directors. Marc Costantini, Executive Vice President of Commercial and Government Markets at The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, joins the board as Children’s Health

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Mobile dental unit to aid areas near Nats Park

That harrowing fact is why the group of community leaders assembled at Amidon-Bowen Elementary School on Friday morning couldn’t sit back idly. They were there to unveil a new mobile dental unit to replace an older one “held together by tape, bubble gum and a little bit of prayer,” said Dr. Erik Scheifele, division chief

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Chiricahua medical units bring health care to disadvantaged areas

Health care is taking a whole new form, bringing doctors to neighborhoods where regular checkups and wellness exams are nearly nonexistent. Chiricahua Community Health Centers just purchased its fourth mobile health unit earlier this year. The mobile unit will join a fleet of three other mobile medical buses Chiricahua has wheeling around Cochise County throughout

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