Established in 1971 to give a voice to the state’s network of community health centers as leading providers of primary care, the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) is one of the leading primary care associations in the country. CHCANYS organizes, educates and advocates on behalf of more than 70 federally qualified community health centers located throughout New York State. Community health centers provide high quality, affordable and accessible primary and preventive care to more than 1.2 million New Yorkers at over 445 sites in urban, suburban and rural settings.

CHCANYS Testifies on NYS Budget Kate Breslin, testified before the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2010-11 Executive Budget on February 9th. Her testimony focused on health care and Medicaid in New York State. Click here to read her testimony. Kate also recently appeared on Susan Arbetter’s statewide radio show, The Capitol Pressroom talking about health care issues in New York State. Click here to listen. (It’s a 60 minute show. Scroll to 14:30 on the progress bar—that’s where the health care segment begins.)

Funding Growth Drives Community Health Center Services Federally qualified health centers play a major role in providing health care to the underserved, and will remain an important part of the health care safety net even under reforms that will increase the number of Americans with health insurance. To read the abstract on the issue from Health Affairs, click here. The full article is available with a subscription to Health Affairs or you can purchase the full article. Click here to see NACHC's press release. Another paper, The Economic Stimulus: Gauging the Early Effects of ARRA Funding on Health Centers and Medically Underserved Populations and Communities has been published on the impact of stimulus funding on health centers by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative. Click here to read the paper which has been co-authored by Peter Shin, PhD, MPH, Brian Bruen, MS, Emily Jones, MPP, PhD [cand.], Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH and Sara Rosenbaum, JD. The paper was just released today.

CHCANYS Releases 2010 Legislative Agenda and Fact Sheet CHCANYS top priorities for this year’s legislative session are Indigent Care, Transition Funding, Credentialing, Doctors Across NY and Migrant Health Care Funding. Click here to read the entire agenda. CHCANYS has also released its updated 2010 Fact Sheet. Click here for a PDF of the publication.

Open Door Family Health Center Achieves Medical Home Status Open Door Family Medical Centers received the highest level Recognition (Level 3) as a Patient-Centered Medical Home™ (PPC-PCMH™) by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).  This distinguishes Open Door from medical practices across the nation as less than 2% are presently able to achieve this advanced standing. Click here to read Open Door’s press release.

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