Community health centers on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic : an overview of findings from the 2019 Uniform Data System Policy issue brief (Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative) Sharac, Jessica, author. Shin, Peter, author. Rosenbaum, Sara, author. Community Health Centers COVID-19 In 2019, on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, federally-funded and look-alike community health centers served over 30 million medically underserved patients across thousands of rural and urban communities. In 6 states and the District of Columbia, community health centers cared for at least 3 in 10 Medicaid/CHIP beneficiaries. Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, community health centers have played a vital role in making COVID-19 testing and care available in the poorest and most at-risk communities. They also have experienced financial losses estimated at nearly $2.9 billion to date as the pandemic has forced a major rollback in other services, site closures, and staff layoffs. The Community Health Center Fund--accounting for over 70 percent of federal health center operating grant revenue--will expire at the end of November 2020, even as patient revenue remains far below levels needed to sustain services. [Washington, D.C.] : Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, September 2020 Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative issuing body. Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, issuing body. George Washington University, issuing body. Milken Institute School of Public Health, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (16 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101773724-pdf 101773724 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101773724 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0