Summary
The recent article on higher hospitalization rates for blacks and Hispanics ("Diabetic blacks, Hispanics face more hospitalizations," Nation, Thursday) with diabetes highlights a major problem: racial and ethnic health disparities. But the fact that federally supported Community Health Centers are countering this trend also deserves mention.
Community health centers provide care to the nation's underserved, a large proportion of whom are minorities. As a result, health centers have a proven record of reducing or even eliminating health disparities among their patients. George Washington University has conducted research that shows that as health centers serve more of states' low-income residents, the difference in states' black/white disparities in overall mortality decline significantly.See the full content of this document
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Funding Federal Health Centers
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