NCCHCA Announces New CEO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Carolyn Allsion, Board Chair
North Carolina Community Health Center Association
2500 Gateway Centre Blvd. Suite 100
Morrisville, NC 27560
Phone: 919-469-5701
callison@cwwilliams.org
www.nccchca.org

North Carolina Community Health Center Association names new CEO
Morrisville NC – December 1, 2008 -- The North Carolina Community Health Center Association (NCCHCA) announced today that E. Benjamin Money, Jr., MPH has been named the new Chief Executive Officer and will begin his post effective December 1, 2008.
Prior to being named Chief Executive Officer, Money served as the Chief Operating Officer the last 6 years and has been employed with NCCHCA since 2001. Money holds a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His career spans over 20 years - with work in public health, community mental health, faith-based non-profits, and health care to the homeless programs.

NCCHCA is a membership association providing training and technical assistance to support local community health centers. NCCHCA is a valuable resource to health centers, providing training and technical assistance in areas such as clinical service delivery, governance, workforce development, and administration. The Association helps medically-underserved communities to create new health centers or expand existing ones.

Community Health Centers (CHC) are private, not-for-profit patient-governed health care corporations. CHCs provide high quality, cost-effective primary and preventive care to medically underserved and uninsured people. CHCs are partially-funded by a federal grant program under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. North Carolina’s CHCs serve approximately 400,000 patients annually, in which over half of them are uninsured. With the rising number of uninsured and the need to serve the most vulnerable populations, Community Health Centers create a safety net for the U.S. health care delivery system in which individuals can receive affordable, high quality care. The Institute of Medicine and the General Accountability Office have also acknowledged community health centers as “effective models for reducing health disparities and for managing the care of people with chronic conditions.” Overall, Community Health Centers are efficient and highly-effective at delivering care to the most vulnerable populations.

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