An article recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine discusses the President's initiative to double the number of health centers nationwide over a five-year period, expanding coverage to millions of underserved patients.
Expansion goals are hindered, however, by a shortage in primary care physicians to staff new and expanded health centers. The article quotes NACHC's senior vice president of policy, Dan Hawkins:
"CHCs meet the definition of a `medical home' as developed by primary care medical organizations, but we will not be able to reach our expansion goals if we cannot attract a greater number of clinicians to these centers and more federal support from Washington."
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