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WPHCA Policies and Agendas

WPHCA is the organizational advocate for Wisconsin Community Health Centers. Each year, the board of directors and staff closely examine the emerging and existing issues that affect Health Centers, and even health care, at the state and federal levels.

We carefully develop policies that guide decisions to advocate for or oppose potential legislation and policies. We provide decision makers with well-researched background to support our positions and activities. This reasonable approach and thoughtful analysis make WPHCA and Community Health Center leaders trusted experts for many decisions and questions about proposals for health care access, financing, quality and reform.

Learn more about WPHCA's 2008 State and Federal Policy Agenda here.

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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.)

September 2010

Fiscal and Operations Group (FOG) Face-to-Face Meeting
September 08, 2010 (21:00 - 22:00)

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