Community Development
IA/NEPCA provides assistance to communities exploring community health center opportunities, as well as to existing health centers to expand their efforts to provide quality, affordable health care services.
- Information about community health centers;
- Assistance in determining if a CHC is an appropriate solution to address a community’s health care needs;
- Assistance to communities to develop and implement a strategy for developing a HRSA New Access Point application; and
- Ongoing technical assistance after a New Access Point funding award is made.
- Be a not-for-profit corporation;
- Be located in a medically underserved area (MUA) or must include a medically underserved population (MUP);
- Be governed by a community board of directors that is consisting of at least 51% CHC users;
- Provide comprehensive primary health care services either on-site or through referral; and
- Provide services to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
For more information on community development assistance, contact Tori Squires, Senior Program Director, at 515.333.5012 or tsquires@ianepca.com.
Access Plans
Access to affordable, high quality health care remains a critical concern for millions of individuals across the country. A report published in March 2007 by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and the Robert Graham Center of the American Academy of Family Physicians revealed that 56 million Americans are medically disenfranchised, including 529,620 Iowans and 126,602 Nebraskans. In response to this unmet need, NACHC has outlined an aggressive goal for community health centers to serve 30 million patients by 2015.
IA/NEPCA and its member health centers fully support this goal and have developed the following plans to increase access to medical and dental services in Iowa and Nebraska. Achieving this goal will require a significant investment of resources by Iowa’s health centers, working in partnership with public and private entities.
Access for Iowa Plan
Access for Nebraska Plan
Access for All America