We are delighted to have some of our recent work highlighted in “The Urge to Merge: A Case Study,” on The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation blog. Jo DeBolt, says of her work on this project: “Cindy, Bill, and their board members demonstrated outstanding leadership throughout this process.  They worked through the nitty gritty parts of the merger without taking their eyes off their vision of what a combined organization could be and do.  Their efforts have poised Raritan Headwaters to be the high impact organization they envisioned.”

Under health reform legislation, community health centers were to have received $11 billion over five years to expand their capacity to care for the 32 million people who will be newly insured as of 2014. However, federal budget deals have effectively gutted the expansion allocation for 2011 – and 2012 is looking equally grim. With just three short years to prepare for a dramatic increase in demand, community health centers can no longer be certain of the funding necessary to build or upgrade facilities, or to hire additional staff, to ensure that the millions of newly insured have a place to go.

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