08/13/2020

Coronavirus Tracker: COVID Care for Underserved Communities

August 13, 2020

Current updates on association response to the global COVID-19 crisis, along with a roundup of conference, travel and business news and information.

COVID Care for Under-served Communities
Thanks to grants totaling nearly $8 million from the BD Foundation, the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) is helping to build more community health centers to provide quality healthcare to underserved populations in the U.S. The BD Foundation is committing $7.8 million over the next three years to expand the BD Helping Build Healthy Communities initiative, which launched in 2013 and is being implemented by NACHC and the humanitarian organization Direct Relief.

“Health centers serve nearly 30 million patients and have a clear and defined mission as the first line of defense against COVID-19,” said Tom Van Coverden, president and CEO at NACHC, in a news release. “More than 90 percent of health centers have the ability to test for the virus and can care for people who are sick and do not require hospitalization, which reduces the demands—both clinical and financial—on hospitals and emergency rooms.”

NACHC, BD, and Direct Relief announced the renewed commitment to coincide with 2020 National Health Center Week this week, which aims to raise awareness and build support for health centers.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.