News & Press: RCHN Foundation

National Health Center Week (Aug. 8-14)
August 8, 2010

National Health Center Week (Aug. 8-14) gives us an opportunity to recognize the significant contributions of our nation’s community health centers, and the role they play in providing high quality primary care to millions of people, in urban and rural neighborhoods across the county. We thank The National Association of Community Health Centers for sponsoring the week’s activities and for their leadership in planning for the expansion of CHCs as the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act transforms our nation’s delivery system, and applaud the crucial work of our health center colleagues in their communities.

For more on National Health Center Week, and a list of activities and events, click here.

RECORDING AVAILABLE: Thursday August 5, 2010 WEBINAR
August 5, 2010

This webcast will feature Dr. Leighton Ku, lead author of the report “Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Expansion of Community Health Centers Through Health Reform,” recently released by the Geiger-Gibson/ RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative.

Joining Dr. Ku to provide expert commentary will be Dan Hawkins, Sr. Vice President of the National Association of Community Health Centers. This report indicates that the expansion of community health centers will make a major contribution toward bolstering the capacity of the nation’s primary care system and reducing the long term growth in health care costs by increasing the number of patients receiving primary care at CHCs by at least 18 million by the end of the decade, and reducing total national medical costs by more than $180 billion over the next ten years.

To access an archived recording and slides from this session, visit the library at our partner site, Clinical Directors Network.

RCHN Community Health Foundation launches webinar series focused on community health centers NEW DATE
July 6, 2010

The inaugural session of RCHN CHF’s new live webinar series launches on TUESDAY JULY 6, 3:00 p.m. Eastern, featuring Dr. Jack Geiger and Professor Sara Rosenbaum. Dr. Geiger will discuss his recent co-authored New England Journal of Medicine article, “Health Care Reform and Primary Care - The Growing Importance of the Community Health Center”, which explores national health care reform and the expansion of community health centers (CHCs) to serve nearly 20 million new patients as part of an emphasis on accessible primary care. The presenters will review the history of CHCs and the potential for establishing the “Patient-Centered Medical Home” model in CHCs, and as a model of comprehensive, high quality primary care for all Americans.

RCHN CHF has partnered with the Clinical Directors Network (CDN), a well-regarded practice-based research network dedicated to developing educational programs and training opportunities for clinicians and other staff who serve low income and minority patients, to produce this series. To register for this event, please click on this link: www.CDNetwork.org/RCHN

RCHN Community Health Foundation’s Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer to Moderate Expert Roundtable on Rural and Underserved HIT Issues
May 24, 2010
RCHN Community Health Foundation’s executive vice president/chief operating officer Feygele Jacobs will serve as moderator for an expert roundtable lunch discussion entitled, HITECH: Strategies for Delivering on the Promise to Rural and Underserved Communities. The roundtable will be held on June 17, 2010 from 12:30 – 1:30 pm in SD-562, Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

RCHN Community Health Foundation’s Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer to Participate in Expert Roundtable on Childhood Asthma
February 23, 2010
RCHN Community Health Foundation’s executive vice president/chief operating officer Feygele Jacobs will be one of the leaders of an expert roundtable regarding America’s progress and prospects on childhood asthma. The roundtable will be held on February 23, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Room SVC 209/208, in Washington, D.C.

RCHN Community Health Foundation’s Director of Technology Research to Present Sessions on Interoperability and Data Warehousing at NACHC FOM/IT Conference
November 10, 2009
RCHN Community Health Foundation’s director of technology research Dr. David Hartzband will present two IT-focused sessions on November 10th and 11th at the 2009 NACHC Financial, Operations Management and Information Technology (FOM/IT) Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

RCHN Community Health Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer to Participate in National Webinar on Health Reform and Childhood Asthma on 9/17
September 15, 2009
On Thursday, September 17 from 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. EDT, the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. (MCAN), The George Washington University School of Public and Health Services and RCHN Community Health Foundation will host a webinar on childhood asthma and health reform.

RCHN CHF is a Proud Partner in National Health IT Week, September 21 – 25, 2009
September 10, 2009