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Community Health Centers making headlines . . .

. . . an Op-Ed piece entitled "Hard to Believe!" by Bob Herbert appears in today's New York Times. He reports on the Plainfield Health Center, a successful FQHC in Plainfield, Vermont. "In the areas served by the centers in Vermont, the problem of access to primary care does, in fact, seem to have been solved. The centers not only provide patient care, they offer transportation (often crucial in rural areas), counseling, health education classes and a range of other community services."

Senator Bernie Sanders (VT)

. . . met with the Five Town Health Alliance in Lincoln to discuss the future of healthcare in Addison County.

. . . appeared on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olberman to discuss healthcare reform. View the interview with Sen. Sanders here.

. . . announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designated the Addison County five town area as underserved in terms of access to health care. Read more about the revised designation here.

WHO WE ARE . . .
We are a group of citizens from the Five Town area in Vermont's northeastern Addison County, (Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven, and Starksboro) who represent a variety of backgrounds within and outside of health and dental care. We are interested in community building and furthering the health of our families, neighbors, and friends through improving access to health and dental care.

We believe that healthy communities begin with healthy families, neighbors, and friends and that self-determination to practice healthy lifestyles should not be limited by ability to pay. We are guided by a system of beliefs recognizing health and dental care as basic rights to which all are entitled, and we are impatient to turn these beliefs into reality.

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