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Health Centers are locally-owned, non-profit charitable tax-exempt
organizations that provide high-quality comprehensive preventive and
primary health services regardless of insurance status or ability
to pay. Community Health Centers are located in areas where there
is a shortage of medical professionals, barriers to access to health
care for the people that live there, or both. Patients are the majority
members on governing boards of Community Health Centers to ensure
responsiveness to patients and local needs. Community Health Centers
are the family doctor to 15 million people nationally. They reduce
the need for expensive hospital and specialty care, saving billions
of dollars for taxpayers. Community Health Centers in North Carolina
serve over 300,000 people for less than $1 dollar per day per patient.
Community Health Centers serve Medicaid, Medicare, State Children's
Health Insurance Program, working poor, indigent and uninsured patients.
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