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WPHCA’s Annual Policy and Advocacy

The Summit provides first-time attendees what they need to know to get involve and veteran attendees with the news and information they crave. Together, our team of advocates return to their communities ready to assist their Health Centers with effective advocacy.

2008 Policy and Advocacy Summit: February 13 & 14, 2008

2008 Conference Materials
Conference Agenda
State and Federal Policy Agenda
Endorsed State Legislation
Main Message Points

Patient Statistics Fact Sheet
State Grant Program Fact Sheet
Dental Access Fact Sheet
Medicaid Funding Fact Sheet

WI Health Centers: What We Do and Who We Are
WI Health Centers: Growth Leads to Fiscal Concerns
WI Health Centers: Making a Difference Through Advocacy

Presenter Power Points
Advocacy Essentials – Alice O’Connor
Coalition for Sensible Health Care Solutions – Dan Schwartzer
NACHC Federal Spring Update - Amanda Pears
Expanding Access to Health Care in Wisconsin – Jon Peacock

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

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)

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 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)

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

Although cancer deaths have declined for both whites and African Americans in the U. S., African Americans continue to suffer the greatest burden for the most common types of cancer.

(Source: National Cancer Institute)

Since 2001, as part of President Bush’s Health Center Expansion Initiative, Congress has increased funding for Health Centers. Today, 5 million more Americans in 900 communities have access to effective, affordable primary care.
source: Health Services and Resources Administration

Depression is three times more common for those who have had a heart attack than for others. Heart patients should be screened and treated for depression.

(Source: American Heart Association)

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)

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