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Each state legislative session, state law requires organizations employing a lobbyist to register with the State Government Accountability Board. WPHCA has a government relations director who lobbies on behalf of the Association and Community Health Centers. See where WPHCA has been advocating at:

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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)

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 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.
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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 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)

The Wisconsin Diabetes Prevention and Control Program released the 2008 revision of the Wisconsin Essential Diabetes Mellitus Care Guidelines.
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The National Health Service Corps sends doctors, dentists, nurse practitioners and other care providers to communities without these providers. About half of the 4,000 NHSC clinicians work at Health Centers.
source: National Association of Community Health Centers, (2007)

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

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