The broad outpatient visits category included office, outpatient hospital, ambulatory surgical center, federally qualified health center, state or local public health clinic, rural health clinic, and community mental health center visits.
This study included several variables related to resources for primary health care at the county-level: (1) per capita primary care physicians and non-physician clinicians; (2) per capita short term general hospital beds; and (3) per capita federally qualified health center (FQHC) or a rural health center (RHC).
Mary's Center founded in 1988, is a federally qualified health center that provides health care, family literacy and social services to over 24,000 individuals in the greater Washington, D.C. area annually.
The health centers were members of CareSouth Carolina, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) headquartered in Hartsville, South Carolina.
But because Mr. Margoles has never tried to transform the clinic into a federally qualified health center, it is not eligible for the higher reimbursements paid to those centers.
The federally qualified health center's staff helped her enroll in the state-run Texas Women's Health Program to cover her injection.
Other students, like Kylie G. Boggess, 24, witnessed how integral a federally qualified health center could be to a community like Nampa, Idaho, and became all the more committed.
Mr. Margoles has at times considered trying to convert his clinic into a federally qualified health center but is convinced that the move would be opposed because of its proximity to one of the four centers already in Milwaukee.
When Dr. H. Jack Geiger founded the country's first federally qualified health center in 1967 in Mound Bayou, a small town in the delta, the goal was to confront the many aspects of people's lives that were contributing to their ill health.
A 22-week federally qualified health center (FQHC -based FQHC -basedrket (farmers personal financial incentive intervention designed to imarket access to and consumption oFMfruits and vegetables (FVs) among low-income diabetics in rural South Carolina was evaluated.
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of participation in a farmers' market and fruit and vegetable prescription program on changes in hemoglobin A1C (Hblood, blood pressure (BP) and weight in patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes at a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Detroit, MI.
