Building a National Agenda for CHC Leadership on Primary Care

The Community Health Center Movement A Clinician’s Perspective Daniel Miller, MD June 2019

The CHC Movement The Health Cente

Who Are We?

WHY?

What Is It That We Do?

Drs. Jack Geiger & Count Gibson The Health Cente

Dr. Robert Smith

The Struggle Continues

National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 66, No. 4, August 14, 2017

The Struggle Continues

Changes in race- and ethnicity-adjusted life expectancy by income group, 2001 to 2014. JAMA. 2016 April 26; 315(16): 1750–1766. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.4226.

The Health Cente

What Is It That We Do? The Health Cente

CHCs Care for People The Health Cente ✚ Individuals and Populations ✚ Excellent Quality ✚ Respect and Dignity

✚ Justice and Equity ✚ Sustainable  Finance  Personal  Operational ✚ We Evolve and We Improve

We Are Better Together The Health Cente

NACHC Evolution The Health Cente ✚ We Are Better Together

✚ Committees ✚ Board of Directors

NACHC Value Transformation Framework

The Health Cente

Social Drivers of Health The Health Center

The Health Cente

The Most Important Thing is to Keep The Most Important Thing The Most Important Thing

Donald Coduto

Equity

Access

Poverty

Movement Patient

Justice

Racism

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.�

Thank You Daniel Miller, MD Chief, Clinical Integration & GME Hudson River HealthCare, Inc. dmiller@hrhcare.org