Promoting improved health care outcomes for all Arkansans

Vaccination promotion video

Check out this 30 second video produced by CHCA to promote  vaccination use, especially in the Black community where uptake has been low compared to Whites who are generally more receptive. Please share! Link here

National Association of Community Health Centers

On its first full day in office, the Biden-Harris administration released a comprehensive document laying out its widely anticipated plan to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. As we expected, the plan makes numerous references to the central role that Community Health Centers will play in this effort. Read the NACHC blog.

Read LaShannon Spencer's

guest column

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on October 30 published a op-ed piece by the CHCA chief executive officer on the risk posed to patients because of changes to the 340B program sought by the drug industry. "Arkansas continues to be hammered by covid-19, but it seems the big drug manufacturers, for some ill-conceived reason, have chosen this time to attack a prescription drug program that benefits thousands of low-income Arkansans," she writes. 

Click to read  the entire column.

March

Kidney health, nutrition, and bleeding disorders, among March health observances

Today with Macrae

Listen to HRSA Deputy Administrator for the Bureau of Primary Care on March 2 and March 23

NACHC P&I 2021

The National Association of Community Health Centers will host its 2021 Policy & Issues Forum virtually, March 15-18, 2021.