Connecticut Spotlights Community Health Centers During National Health Center Week to Help Residents Find Low-Cost Quality Health Care
Posted on: Monday, 8 August 2005, 15:00 CDT
The Connecticut Primary Care Association and 12 nonprofit community health centers it represents are using National Health Center Week in August to launch a public information campaign on the community-based model of health care that exists in Connecticut.
Governor M. Jodi Rell is the group's spokesperson in a 30-second public service announcement sent to radio and TV stations across the state, informing people of Connecticut's community health centers and encouraging them not to delay getting the health care they need because of insurance or money issues.
Community Health Centers provide low-cost quality medical, dental and mental health services from 80 sites across our state to all residents, regardless of their ability to pay.
More than half a million visits are made to Connecticut's community health centers each year. Yet according to Evelyn Barnum, CPCA's executive director, "there is still a critical need to build public awareness of the low-cost preventive care available through community health centers, especially to improve children's and women's health."
Recent survey findings released by the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that many women delay or skip care because of cost. The survey found that in the last year, 27% of women under age 65 and 67% of uninsured women delayed or went without needed medical care because they did not think they could afford it.
Barnum hopes CPCA's information campaign will reverse that trend. "Governor Rell's experience and candor in discussing how a mammogram saved her life makes her the ideal spokesperson for this public service message." Individuals may listen to an audio stream of Governor Rell's health care public service announcement by visiting the CPCA web site at www.ctpca.org.
This year, National Health Center Week (August 7-13, 2005) marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Health Centers program.
Source: Business Wire
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