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Grants are part of a $3 million, multi-year initiative to help people nationwide manage and prevent chronic diseases WOONSOCKET, R.I., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, a private foundation created by CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) today announced the recipients of the "Innovations in Community Health" grants, which have been awarded to community health centers nationwide through a partnership with the National Association of Community Health...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Joseph P. Addabbo Family Center learned today that they will receive a $250,000 grant after suffering catastrophic damages caused by Hurricane Sandy to three of their community health centers, two in the Rockaways and one in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The grant, from Direct Relief USA and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), is the first cash grant awarded from the Sandy Safety Net Fund, a...
National Association of Community Health Centers, Direct Relief Establish Sandy Fund to Support Safety-Net Facilities in Affected Communities BETHESDA, Md. and SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two national nonprofit organizations, The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and Direct Relief International, announced today that they have joined together and established a special fund to support the patients and nonprofit health centers...
MELVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the world's largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental, medical and animal health practitioners, today announced a new five-year agreement with the Henry Schein Cares Foundation, Inc. and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) to increase access to care for underserved communities. Under the new agreement, NACHC will participate in two Henry Schein...
WOONSOCKET, R.I., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, a private foundation created by CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS), today announced a $3 million, multi-year partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). Beginning in 2013, grants will be made available to community health centers across the country to support the development of innovative, community-based programs and initiatives to manage chronic diseases. To...
WASHINGTON and BETHESDA, Md., March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Recognizing the need for trusted resources with relevant experience to help safety-net providers manage increasing demands for quality, cost, and outcome data, as well as navigate a complex and ever changing HIT marketplace, The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), in partnership with three Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs) - Health Choice Network of Florida, OCHIN of Oregon, and the...
BETHESDA, Md., April 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) has inducted Castulo de la Rocha, President and CEO of AltaMed Health Services into the NACHC Grassroots Advocacy Hall of Fame. This award recognizes de la Rocha's lasting contributions to ensuring the creation, survival and strength of Community Health Centers and the health center movement over many years. For the past 33 years, de la Rocha's passion has been delivering...
Training Frontline Workers is Focus of the National Jobs to Careers Initiative Efforts to be Celebrated During National Health Center Week, August 8-14 BOSTON, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the National Association of Community Health Centers prepares to recognize the service and contributions of Community Health Centers during National Health Center Week (August 8 - 14), some community health centers are offering a way to fill critical workforce shortages, long seen as a major...
BETHESDA, Md., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) today announced it has renewed its preferred partnership agreement with Staff Care, a leading locum tenens firm that places doctors in all specialties and other healthcare professionals on a temporary basis with a variety of healthcare organizations. Staff Care, based in Dallas, is an AMN Healthcare company (NYSE: AHS). NACHC first signed a locums preferred partnership agreement...
National Association of Community Health Centers to Support Clinical Training for WGU's New Nursing Prelicensure Program SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and Western Governors University, www.wgu.edu, will partner to provide clinical training opportunities as part of WGU's new competency-based bachelor's degree program leading to initial RN licensure. The program, which began in California last July and will...
