Very good article on the value of community health centers under Medicaid. Discussing the issue surrounding Yakima, and also, here on the Peninsula.
Community health centers like Yakima Neighborhood Health Services have worked to solve the national challenge of access to care with innovative solutions at the local level. Health centers like ours save, on average, $2,371 (or 24 percent) in total spending per Medicaid patient when compared to other providers, according to a recent multistate study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
