Office of Medicaid Business & Policy,

Health Planning and Research

Strengthening the Safety Net:  A Financial Analysis of NH's Community Health Centers is a 46 page analysis of the status of NH's Community Health Centers (CHCs).  CHCs are nonprofit, comprehensive primary care providers committed to caring for the poor and the uninsured.  They are an integral part of NH's safety net.  NH has ten CHCs.  

The purpose of this report is to:

• describe the purpose and importance of these CHCs;

• present the financial status and trends of these CHCs in a health care market that is in rapid transition; and

• propose recommendations to strengthen NH's core safety net – the Community Health Centers.

The full report, a compilation of the CHC analyses, and additional resource information are contained in the links below:

• Strengthening the Safety Net, Full Report (46 pages)
• Strengthening the Safey Net, Issue Brief (2 pages)
• Complete Set of CHC Reports (11 pages)
• CHC Market Areas Map (1 page)

Individual CHC Financial Analysis are provided below:

• Ammonoosuc Community Health Services (2 pages)
• Avis Goodwin Community Health Centers (2 pages)
• Coos County Family Health Services (2 pages)
• Families First of the Greater Seacoast (3 pages)
• Health First Family Care Center (2 pages) 
• Lamprey Health Care (3 pages)
• Manchester Community Health Center (2 pages)
• Neighborhood Health Center of Greater Nashua (2 pages)

Additional Resources:

• Supporting the Rural Care Safety Net, March 2000 (55 pages) is one of a series of occasional papers from the Urban Institute analyzing information from health care and social services sources organized as part of a multi-year project called "Assessing the New Federalism."

• From the Bi-State Primary Care Association, Present and Future Challenges Facing NH's CHCs (11 pages), is a report containing: a national overview of CHCs and how NH's CHCs compare; the challenges they face today; their financial status; the managed care market and CHCs; CHC services; profiles of CHC patients; and CHC future challenges.