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Assuring Access to Health Care: The Role and Needs for Community Health Centers

Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008, at 7:30 a.m.
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Access Reports

Learn about the challenges facing America's safety net in a series of reports by the Graham Center and the National Association of Community Health Centers:

Access Denied: A look at America's medically disenfranchised

Access Granted: The primary care payoff

Access Transformed: Building a primary care workforce for the 21st century

Director's Corner

Visits to family physicians constitute more than 22 percent of all outpatient patient visits -- 250 million visits annually -- but family physicians receive just 0.22 percent of NIH research dollars. Family medicine's substantial clinical presence means family physicians should be instrumental in helping to bridge the chasm between medical knowledge and actual clinical care toward improved population health. So what's the problem with research translation?

Read the full report:
Off the Roadmap? Family Medicine’s Grant Funding and Committee Representation at NIH

The Patient Centered Medical Home

The Patient Centered Medical Home has captured the collective interest of Federal and State Government, employers and health plans, and has the potential to produce the most profound transformation of the health care system in recent memory. New evidence points to the model's capacity for providing quality primary health care to all Americans.

Read the full reports:

The Patient Centered Medical Home: History, Seven Core Feature, Evidence and Transformational Change

The Medical Home: Growing Evidence to Support a New Approach to Primary Care (JABFM, Sep-Oct 2008)

THE ROBERT GRAHAM CENTER exists to...

Improve individual and population health by enhancing the delivery of primary care.

The Center aims to achieve this mission through the generation or synthesis of evidence that brings a family medicine and primary care perspective to health policy deliberations from the local to international levels