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Welcome to the Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association’s Web site, a resource for everyone who supports, promotes, uses and works in Community Health Centers. Here, you can learn about health care policies that support everyone’s access to a medical home, explore quality improvement strategies, share tactics to provide high quality and culturally competent care, engage in activities to knock down the barriers some Wisconsinites face in the health care system, talk with experts, even find a Community Health Center doctor or dentist to care for you.

Download the ACCESS Report 2009 here

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2009 Health Center Patient Stats: Who are Community Health Center patients? Review the collective characteristics of 243, 863 patients with the 2009 Fact Sheet.
Dental Coverage: Click here for WPR's interview with Family Health/La Clinica Executive Director Ted Kay, about dental health in Wisconsin
Health Care Reform & Community Health Centers: After the celebration - what's next? Review the implications for Community Health Centers and their patients of this historic legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordabie Care Act. Read what it means for Community Health Centers in this NACHC summary.
WPHCA Annual Conference Materials On-Line: WPHCA's inaugural annual conference materials are now posted on the website. Click here to download, share with colleagues and refresh your professional strategic plan with these documents loaded with pointers for success in this new era of health care and reform!

Today, more than one in four Americans has two or more chronic conditions.

(Carolyn Clancy, M.D., director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

Community Health Centers are the family doctor and health care home for 16 million people in more than 5,000 communities in America.
source: National Association of Community Health Centers, (2007)

The 2007 estimated cost of diabetes in the U.S. was $174 billion. That’s $1 out of every $5 spent on health care.

(Source: The Economic Imperative to Conquer Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2008; 31(3):624-625.)

The first Health Centers opened 40 years ago. Two Tufts University doctors got a federal grant to open Centers in Boston and Mississippi.
source: Shaping the Future From Our Past: Four Amazing Centuries of Innovation, Boston History & Innovation Collaborative, (2006)

Tobacco users in Wisconsin can call 1-800-QUIT-NOW for personalized coaching and two weeks’ of free medication to help quit.

The American Heart Association says add one hour of regular, vigorous physical activity to your day and you may gain up to two hours of life expectancy for that hour.
Start it up with a click here.

The Wisconsin Diabetes Prevention and Control Program released the 2008 revision of the Wisconsin Essential Diabetes Mellitus Care Guidelines.
Click here to explore!

In the 1960s, the federal health center program was begun to provide primary care to people who were poor and to complement to the new Medicaid program.
source: The Commonwealth Fund

Wisconsin health dropped to 17th in the U.S. for 2008. Why? High geographic disparity (12.7%), binge drinking (23.8% of people), obesity (25.3% of people), and low public health funding ($34 per person).
(Source: UnitedHealth Foundation)

The combination of quit smoking medications and counseling can double or triple a person's chance of quitting for good.

(The U.S. Public Health Service)

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