But community clinics' fund-raising capabilities are limited, since most rely on government grants to keep their doors open.
And Mr. Bush has done almost nothing to shore up the public insurance programs, notably Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, that provide the bulk of the clinics' funding through the patients they cover.
I saw firsthand how clinics funded by foreign aid are often the only source of health care for women.
For example, federal law requires insurance plans to contract with "essential community providers," which include medical clinics funded by the Ryan White Program.
Colorado's Weld County Board on Monday renewed a 2010 policy that prevented county health clinics funded by the federal Title X women's health program from dispensing Plan B emergency contraception to their mostly young and low-income patients.
Two of the study sites are community health clinics funded on salary, one is a university-based student clinic with a blended funding mechanism, one is a teaching clinic with salaried physicians and one is a private fee for service practice.
"Another caller had been a long-term patient at a pain management clinic, funded by Lincolnshire PCT.
Bowden-Jones, who previously specialised in alcohol and drug addiction, founded the NHS's first and only specialist gambling clinic, funded by the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, in 2008.
In Herat province, close to the Iranian border, 4,000 patients are on the waiting list for one of 20 beds at the Shahamat clinic, funded by a German NGO called GTZ.
The study site in Kenya is a private clinic funded by private donations in a deprived area of Mombasa.
If patients would continue their relationships with the outpatient care facilities, then JOMP team encouraged them to go to outpatient department with a member of JOMP team There was no particular programmed home treatment but JOMP delivered basic case management and care for building trust with patients who dropped out from regular Japanese outpatient clinic funded by public insurance.
