Worried About Community Health Centers? Insights From Richard Bohrer & James W. Hunt, Jr.
This week is the 17th anniversary of our first “Conversations on Health Care” and our guests have been part of the community health center movement before we even started our interviews.
They have the battle scars that prove they know how to fight and win on behalf of community health centers. Now, they’re rallying the ranks and encouraging them to take on new challenges.
The guests are:
- Rear Admiral, U.S. Public Health Service (ret.), Richard Bohrer, former director of the federal Health Center Program
- James W. Hunt, Jr., Ph.D., former president and CEO, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
The latest data show that nearly 1 in 7 Americans, including 1 in 3 in rural America, has relied on community health centers in recent years. But Medicaid cuts threaten their viability.
Bohrer and Hunt join hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter to explain how they beat back funding threats in the 1980s and how the movement should handle inevitable leadership and operational transitions.
Hunt also discusses his new book, “If You’ve Seen One…,” which covers his six decades of effort to expand access to community health centers.
