Promoting improved health care outcomes for all Arkansans

All in on telemedicine,

stay healthy, easy to use

Here's a fun video explaining telemedicine developed by the Arkansas Community Health Worker Association in partnership with Community Health Centers of Arkansas and made possible through funding from

Arkansas Community Foundation

Please share among your CHC family and patient base. Great tool to get the word out!

National Association of Community Health Centers

29 State Attorneys General Support 340B, Call on HHS/HRSA to Act: NACHC and PCAs have been engaging with State AGs on 340B and contract pharmacy concerns. On Monday, December 12, 2020 29 State AGs sent a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and HRSA Administrator Tom Engels urging them “to address drug manufacturers’ unlawful refusal to provide critical drug discounts to covered entities, such as community health centers, under the 340B Drug Pricing Program.”

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.

January

January Health Observances: Birth defects, cervical cancer, glaucoma, among others

MLK Day

Please take some time to consider Martin Luther King Jr.'s influence on health care.

NACHC P&I 2021

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