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05/08/2025

Its ’s patient appreciation day! Head over to the CHroniCles website to check out your local health center with our interactive tool. Here you will find information about your health center’s services and history – including images and stories of patients and communities: https://www.chcchronicles.org/explore

Community health centers provide access to all, including low-income working families, the medically underserved and uninsured, and high-risk and vulnerable populations, including the homeless, public housing residents, migrant farmworkers  and people isolated from other forms of care because of fi...

04/08/2025

CHCs provide good job opportunities and stimulate local economies while training the next generation of community health leaders. CHC staff truly embody the core health center mission. During we recognize our 2025 Emerging Leaders – staff members at CHCs, PCAs and HCCNs who go above and beyond for patients, communities, and the CHC movement.

03/08/2025

It is ! Starting with just 2 organizations in 1965, 60 years later community health centers now serve thousands of communities. Today as we celebrate 6 decades of progress, we are sharing our CHroniCles Spotlight on History series which explores some of the earliest CHCs: https://www.chcchronicles.org/stories -94

21/07/2025

❗New Policy Change Reclassifies Community Health Centers Under PRWORA with dire implications❗

📰 Our latest Notes from Washington explains the policy change and potential impact: https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/trump-administration-reverses-decades-old-policy-immigrant-eligibility-federal-programs

On July 14, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice expanding the definition of “federal public benefit” under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). This policy reverses over two decades of settled interpretation and includes community health centers (CHCs) among the affected programs.
This change may have significant implications for health center operations and access to care for certain immigrant populations.

📅 HHS is accepting public comments through August 13.

12/05/2025

Community Health Centers Are Increasingly Important to Medicare Beneficiaries:

📈3.4 million Medicare beneficiaries are served by CHCs

💊 Older adults who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid have greater health needs than those eligible for Medicare alone, presenting a role for CHCs but also a potential resource strain

🏘️ Medicare beneficiaries served by community health centers are more likely to live in rural areas

🩺 Medicare beneficiaries served by CHCs are generally in poorer health with higher rates of depression, blindness/difficulty seeing, deafness/difficulty hearing, obesity, and smoking

Read more on our latest data note: https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/community-health-centers-are-increasingly-important-medicare-beneficiaries

08/05/2025

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month!

Today for we are highlighting a community health center that has intentionally served members of this population for over 50 years. Read more on the CHroniCles website here: https://www.chcchronicles.org/stories/50-years-whole-patient-care-asian-health-services%E2%80%99-commitment-health-and-community

25/04/2025

↗️ Over their 60-year history, community health centers have been more than places of care—they’ve been engines of empowerment.

🌱 For the duration of the health center movement, they have long tackled the roots of health by addressing economic, social, and environmental needs, as defined by the communities themselves.

🗞️ Read the latest installment of our CHroniCles Spotlight on History series highlighting early examples of community-driven innovation at Aaron E. Henry Community Health Services Center, Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, Inc., Delta Health Center, Urban Health Plan, Inc., Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, “Spotlight on History: Community Health Center Initiatives Advance Empowerment, Health Care Justice”

🔗 https://www.chcchronicles.org/stories/spotlight-history-community-health-center-initiatives-advance-empowerment-health-care

23/04/2025

📅 Anniversary Alert 📅 As part of our CHroniCles feature on community health center anniversaries, highlighting each center's unique founding story and dedicated years of service, today we recognize Manet Community Health Center celebrating 45+ years of service in 2025!

Read about this community health center milestone anniversary at: https://bit.ly/42oOtRm and learn more about the organization by visiting their CHroniCles profile: https://www.chcchronicles.org/explore/manet-community-health-center

Does your CHC, or one in your community, have a milestone anniversary coming up? Please let us know at geigergibson@gwu.edu, so that we can feature it!

22/04/2025

A new policy brief, Braidwood Management v Becerra Could Eliminate Three Quarters of the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Benefits for Women, Infants, and Children, examines a the potential implications of this significant case which could radically reduce free preventive care for women, infants, ...

04/04/2025

The Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health, a signature initiative of GW’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, is the nation’s leading academic program focusing on community health centers and the communities and populations they serve.

📌 Our research focuses on policy issues relevant to community health centers and their patients
📌 Our special programs showcase excellence from community health center leadership
📌 Our educational offerings provide a spectrum of experiences – from just-in-time policy information to immersion experiences in Washington, D.C.

Follow along to learn more about our work during – April 7-13 and sign up for our mailing list: https://bit.ly/3E1UDNN

25/03/2025

Combined losses from proposed cuts to Medicaid and SNAP would reach $1.1 trillion over a decade, including a $95 billion loss of federal funding in 2026 alone.

25/03/2025

is March 25-31! Today we highlight the many stories and historical photos and documents we have on the CHroniCles website that celebrate the story of Migrant Health Centers and the vital work they do to care for and reach seasonal agricultural workers who are vulnerable to illness, injury, and disenfranchisement while doing the vital agricultural work that feeds the nation and world. Health centers are critical infrastructure that support these farmworkers' labor, providing accessible, linguistically and culturally appropriate healthcare.

🔗 Access the CHroniCles Migrant Health Center stories here: https://www.chcchronicles.org/stories/special-populations-migrant-health-centers