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Welcome to Indiana Primary Health Care Association

MISSION - To champion the delivery and development of accessible community driven quality health care.

VISION - A barrier free quality health care system which is: Affordable • Available • Accessible • Appropriate • Acceptable

IPHCA BELIEFS AND VALUES
  1. Health care is a right not a privilege.
  2. Grassroots advocates are crucial to community supported health care.
  3. Comprehensive integrated and coordinated primary health care encompasses medical, dental, behavioral health, and enabling services.
  4. The Community Health Center model, to which the consumer’s voice is integral, provides for an outcome based patient focused health         care home.
  5. IPHCA equips leaders to advance health care goals and objectives.



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Current Studies and Reports

Public Programs: A Solution?

Ways to expand health insurance for people with low incomes vary, from broadening public programs to relying on tax subsidies that enable individuals to purchase private insurance. A related study by The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, in collaboration with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, was recently featured in the journal Health Affairs.

The report – Public and Private Insurance: Stacking Up the Costs – reveals that providing health coverage to low-income people through public programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP, rather than through private health plans, results in lower per-person medical spending and out-of-pocket expenses. The entire report can be viewed through the Kaiser Network website by clicking here.

Access to Medical Care Increasingly in Jeopardy

More and more Americans are going without or delaying medical care, according to the findings of a recent report from The Center for Studying Health System Change. The report – Falling Behind: Americans' Access to Medical Care Deteriorates, 2003-2007 – documents declining access between 2003, when one in seven Americans reported not getting or delaying needed care, and 2007, when one in five reported the same thing. While access deteriorated for both insured and uninsured people, the insured experienced a larger relative increase in access problems. Click here to view the report.

IPHCA Year In Review

IPHCA's 2006-2007 Year In Review details the work of IPHCA and Community Health Centers on behalf of primary care for the medically under-served, and it addresses the Centers' impact on Indiana's economy. To request a hard copy, call 317.630.0845; to view the report online, click here.

Newsroom

Useful resources for the public, Health Centers, and the media:
• Articles on IPHCA and Health Centers
• Other health care articles (access, cost, etc.)
• IPHCA press releases and logo
• Other resources for media and IPHCA members (via password)

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News & Events (Calendar)

IPHCA provides Technical Assistance (TA), education and training, and special events for members. These are noted in News & Events, along with other events of interest to IPHCA members.

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