KC's largest safety-net clinics push back as city takes hard look at health levy

The city is studying which safety-net providers will get funding from the health levy. Longtime recipients argue they can't ...
Health Affairs

Safety-Net Clinics Try Out the Patient-Centered Medical Home Concept: Lessons from Kansas City

The president and CEO of a Midwest health foundation relates what she and colleagues have learned thus far from its initiative. Approximately seventy individuals, from hospital and clinic directors to ...
WESA

Federal shutdown could disrupt patient care at safety-net clinics across U.S.

Community health centers across the country are anxiously watching the budget impasse in Congress. Some 1,400 clinics depend on federal funds to serve the most vulnerable patients, and any ...
The Gazette

GUEST OPINION: Safety-net clinic bill puts those clinics at risk

In Pueblo, we are surrounded by rural counties that have few health care options. Some patients drive three to four hours for treatment and care. If it weren’t for UCHealth Parkview Medical Center in ...
NBC Montana

Safety-net health clinics cut services and staff amid Medicaid

BILLINGS, Mont. — One of Montana’s largest health clinics that serves people in poverty has cut back services and laid off workers. The retrenchment mirrors similar cuts around the country as ...
Crain's New York Business

Nurses call off planned strikes at seven safety-net hospitals

The New York State Nurses Association withdrew its plans to stage strikes at seven safety-net hospitals in Brooklyn, Staten ...