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Health Centers Face Risks as Government Funding Lapses
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Some of these community health centers may have to cut medical and administrative staff or reduce services.
Advocates say the health centers need long-term funding to help them plan with more certainty, ideally through a multiyear fund.
The National Association of Community Health Centers is advocating for at least $5.8 billion in grants annually for two years to keep the centers fully functional.
Health center leaders are building a coalition that “hopefully” will include the main stakeholders in the county’s health care system — community health centers, clinics, hospitals, doctors, health plans, unions — to begin the process to fill out a ballot petition, Mangia said.
The goal: Put the question about taxes for health centers on the ballot and let voters decide.