In a recent guest opinion essay published in the New York Times, Dr. Lindsay Ryan, University of California, argues that end-stage poverty is killing Americans. Dr. Ryan is an associate physician at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Medicine. It is a safety-net hospital, which Dr. Ryan describes as “institutions that disproportionately serve…
Black Pharmacists Advocate for 340B For over 30 years, the federal 340B Drug Pricing program (340B) has enabled covered entities to be the healthcare safety-net for vulnerable Americans. The Los Angeles Sentinel recently published an article by three black pharmacists, Dr. Kenneth Schell, Dr. John Clark, and Dr. Anthony Jackson. In the article, they…
A New Groundbreaking Study Reveals Real-Life Impact, Cost Savings, and Barriers Faced by Underserved Diabetes Patients in Safety-Net Clinics The federal 340B Drug Pricing Program provides discounted drug prices to safety-net entities, enabling them to serve more vulnerable patients. This program has become indispensable with the escalating costs of medications, including high-cost injectable diabetes…
Five Horizons Health Services Provides HIV Prevention in West Alabama & East Mississippi with 340B The 340B Program allows the rural healthcare facility to provide high-quality, patient-centered medical, dental, prevention, behavioral health, testing, and case management services. by Shey Thorn, MPH, Chief of Staff, Five Horizons Health Services October 2023 Five Horizons Health Services…
History of the 340B Program by Januari Fox, Director of Policy & Advocacy, Community Engagement, Prism Health North Texas Administration October 2022 Republished from the Dallas Medical Journal. Find the original article here. A little-known program that establishes pathways of care for underserved communities is under attack by drug manufacturers. Created in 1992, the…
Rural Hospitals Rely on the 340B Drug Pricing Program by Craig Thompson, Missouri Independent September 12, 2023 Republished from the Missouri Independent. Find original article HERE. According to a recent report, roughly 35% of rural hospitals in Missouri are at risk of closing as a result of inadequate revenue and low financial reserves. This comes as…
Providers March to Capitol Hill for Second Straight Year to ‘Defend 340B’ July 13, 2023 William Newton Read the full article: Providers March to Capitol Hill for Second Straight Year to Defend 340B reprint excerpt. Excerpted by Permission of 340B Report. On a sunny, humid, 92-degree afternoon in Washington, D.C., over 50 safety- net…
Family Health Centers of Kalamazoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan has been busy these past few months running back-to-back COVID-19 vaccine clinics. As of last week, FHC had run 52 clinics in the greater Kalamazoo area, administering 8,112 vaccines to people in the community. The 340B Drug Discount Program allowed FHC to serve more patients and get…
It’s our mission to take care of whomever walks through our doors. Whether critically ill, poor or in decent health, it doesn’t matter: at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing as well as our hospitals in surrounding areas, we help all of our patients get the care and medicine they need to get better and remain healthy.…
FHC Excellence and leadership posture Family Health Centers’ service area is primarily Okanogan County plus the Bridgeport Community in neighboring North Douglas County. We are committed to our mission of improving the health of our entire community. That is our bottom line. If in five years we have not seen measurable improvements in key health…