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WI Community Health Centers Expand

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Monday, August 30, 2010   

MARSHFIELD, Wis. - The work that community health centers do is being celebrated this month in Wisconsin. Organizers hope to raise awareness about the 17 community health centers in the state and the preventative services they provide. Health centers are often referred to as the "family doctors." They've been around for over 45 years, and are now set to expand their quality and cost-effective care to more communities - thanks to the federal health reform law.

Tom Petri, policy and communications director with the Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association, says it means more people will have access to health services at one location they can call a "health care home."

"Oftentimes, what's easiest is to be able to get all of your primary care needs taken care of under one roof."

Community health centers are not only key to health reform because of the services they provide, but because the model saves money. Treating people before they get so ill they require hospital care is expected to save the U.S. health care system up to $300 million over the next 10 years, Petri explains.

"It's a model that works from a financial perspective, not only for the health center, but for the patient and for state and federal government."

Community health centers accept patients regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. More than $1 billion is going to centers nationwide this fall so they can expand facilities and staff.

A ribbon cutting takes place at 1000 North Oak Ave. today at 9 a.m. to open the recent expansion of the Family Health Center of Marshfield. The theme for National Health Center Week earlier this month was "Celebrating America's Health Centers: Turning the Vision into Reality."



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