Key Facts
• Over 1,100 health center grant recipients operate more than 8,000 community-based clinic sites in every state and territory, giving geographically isolated or economically distressed people access to preventive and primary health care.
• HRSA-supported health centers treated more than 19 million people in 2010, approximately two-thirds of whom are members of minority groups. Nearly forty percent have no health insurance; a third are children.
• Since 2001, through a major expansion initiative, HRSA has increased access to primary health care in 1,200 communities through new or expanded clinical sites. During this time, health centers increased their patient base by almost 60 percent, nearly doubled the number of people receiving oral health care, and tripled the number of clients who received mental health and addiction counseling services. One of every 20 people living in the U.S. now relies on a HRSA-funded clinic for primary care, including nearly a quarter of the nation’s homeless and migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
• The National Hansen’s Disease Program is the major source of direct patient care, clinician training and research in the field of Hansen’s Disease and related leprous conditions.
• The Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1992 and 1995 granted medical malpractice liability protection through the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) to HRSA-supported health centers. BPHC administers this program through its Office of Quality and Data. The Free Clinics Medical Malpractice Program extends this coverage to insures physicians and other clinicians who contribute free health care services in the communities, relieving them of the burden of paying for private liability coverage.
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