Coalition Receives Transformation Award

The Coalition of Community Health Clinics received one of five inaugural Transformation Grants from the Regence Foundation. This grant was awarded to the Coalition for its innovative work facilitating cooperation among 13 member clinics providing care to uninsured resisdents in the Portland metropolitan area, the newly launched Regence Foundation awarded $10,000 to the Coalition of Community Health Clinics in Portland. (read more)

‘Volunteers fill a growing, essential need’

By S. Renee Mitchell

The Oregonian, Wednesday, August 15, 2007

When 41-year-old James Jacobs lost his job and health insurance and needed heart medication, his life was on the line.

He called his legislators who told him to call someone else. He says the folks at the Oregon Health Plan told him that he didn’t qualify because he wasn’t pregnant, over age 65 or under age 21. The various medical clinics wanted some form of payment. read more

Coalition Named Community Partner of the Year

The Coalition of Community Health Clinics has been named “2007 Community Partner of the Year” by United Way of the Columbia Willamette. The Spirit Award recognizes demonstrated leadership and community impact, as well as innovation and collaboration.Portland, Oregon, September 20, 2007

The Coalition of Community Health Clinics has been named “2007 Community Partner of the Year” by United Way of the Columbia Willamette. The Spirit Award recognizes demonstrated leadership and community impact, as well as innovation and collaboration.

On September 20, 2007, the Coalition of Community Health Clinics received the 2007 Community Partner of the Year “Spirit Award” during United Way of Columbia Willamette’s Annual Campaign Kick Off Breakfast held in the Portland Convention Center’s Portland Ballroom (read more)

Project Access Now

An emerging charity health care program intends to serve the metro area’s uninsured patients by selling enough doctors on providing free medical care

by JOE ROJAS-BURKE

Oregon Live Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The stage was set for a personal disaster.

Unable to afford health insurance at age 64 — just four months shy of Medicare eligibility — Clarel O’Sullivan learned she had malignant skin cancer.

But to O’Sullivan’s amazement, the free clinic where she sought care wasted no time finding a surgeon and hospital willing to treat her. Ten days after the positive cancer test, the retired English teacher emerged from surgery free of cancer — and nearly free of debt.
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Oregonian Opinion: More letters on Oregon’s kicker

Oregon Live, Posted by Giselle Williams September 08, 2007 12:00PM

I agree with Sen. Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, and others who believe that our state’s kicker law is a bad idea. We should use our tax revenue to provide needed services when so many are going without.

With more than 600,000 Oregonians lacking health insurance, the $1.1 billion in refunds could save lives and prevent many from entering the downward spiral of medical debt.

When those checks come in the mail, we can choose to make a difference by supporting the work of the Coalition of Community Health Clinics , a nonprofit network of 13 free or low-cost clinics that provide care to those without health insurance.

JILL GINSBERG, M.D.
Medical director and co-founder
North by Northeast Community Health Center
North Portland