Despite the challenges facing them on the federal level – such as changing policies and executive orders from the Trump administration – several of the state’s community health centers (CHCs) are being nationally recognized for the services they provide to hundreds of thousands of patients.
Community health centers (CHCs) are an essential source of health care for millions of U.S. women, building on a long history of providing care to under-resourced and higher-risk communities.
Scores of workers at clinics, nonprofits and state agencies help some of Connecticut’s most at-risk residents to stay not only sober, but also fed, safe, housed. But that work’s future has been spun off-kilter in recent months by massive federal budget cuts to programs that serve the poor.
Between 100,000 and 200,000 Connecticut residents could lose health insurance coverage from HUSKY Health, the state’s Medicaid program, over the coming years, severely impacting seniors, healthcare and eldercare facilities, particularly in rural communities.
A network of 17 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in Connecticut, including three in the Northwest Corner towns of North Canaan, Winsted and Torrington, will receive a long-awaited funding boost in Medicaid reimbursement rates to the tune of $80 million over the next three years.
Community Health & Wellness Center’s North Canaan location recently was featured on WFSB’s Good Day CT.
If patients lose their insurance, Community Health Centers and other providers could be forced to make difficult decisions.
State officials are poised to legally exceed Connecticut’s spending cap for the first time in nearly two decades to avert a crisis in paying Medicaid bills — and to pave the way for a new two-year budget.
HUSKY Medicaid checks won’t go out to thousands of doctors next week, unless Connecticut lawmakers plug a $300 million deficit by this coming Wednesday.
A roundtable discussion on the impact of reductions in federal funding for public health generated plenty of examples Friday.
Connecticut has already seen nearly $150 million in federal public health grants terminated by the Trump administration, and the loss of the funding is already being felt across the state.
