Sentences with phrase «family planning care»

This is a significant step towards prioritizing and improving the quality of family planning care provided to women and men of reproductive age.

«Asking FQHCs to become the main source of publicly funded family planning care in the United States is not a viable policy proposal,» says Hasstedt.

FACT: Although Planned Parenthood health centers comprised 10 % of the country's safety - net centers that offered family planning care in 2010, they served 36 % of patients served by such centers.

These «defunding» policies in states like Louisiana, Florida, and Texas jeopardize the very health care that the CDC recommends as the primary strategy to reduce Zika - related pregnancy complications, including birth control, health education, and other family planning care.

The NQF endorsement of these measures is a significant step towards prioritizing and improving the quality of family planning care provided to women and men of reproductive age.

The statute, regulations and programmatic guidelines that govern Title X effectively set the standard for publicly funded family planning care across the country.

According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, in 2013, the state's family planning program served less than one - quarter of the women it had served in 2011.24 Departmental data also showed that the cost to the state to provide family planning care increased dramatically, from $ 206 per client to $ 240.

About half as many patients received family planning care after the state cut Planned Parenthood health centers out of its Medicaid family planning - only program for low - income women.

The Forum is the premiere scientific and educational family planning conference, and is focused on advancing access to safe, convenient, and high - quality family planning care.

Planned Parenthood serves 1.5 million of Title X's over 4 million patients each year, helping people who often don't have access to family planning care anywhere else.

Planned Parenthood health centers in Iowa served nearly half of all patients accessing family planning care at a publicly funded provider in 2015 — and served 4,000 of the more than 12,000 people who received care through the state's Medicaid family planning waiver program in 2016.

19 This clause protects young women's autonomy by allowing them to be seen individualistically rather than as dependents of their parents or guardians.20 In fact, Title X clinics are one of the few places that provide confidential family planning care for young women.21

First, policymakers are moving to exclude Planned Parenthood from various public funding streams, asserting that Planned Parenthood health centers are unnecessary because FQHC sites are plentiful and could easily meet women's need for family planning care.

The measure signed by Branstad blocks access to care at Planned Parenthood through Iowa's family planning program: birth control, cancer screenings, and other family planning care.

Other reports have found that the state's program has largely failed the Texas women in need of publicly funded family planning care.

Residents of the Quad Cities, Burlington, Keokuk and Sioux City have lost an irreplaceable provider of family planning care; in three out of the four counties with health centers closing, Planned Parenthood served 80 % or more of the patients accessing family - planning care at a publicly funded provider in 2015.

The appointee must understand the public health benefits of access to birth control and family planning care.

In a study of Community Health Centers (CHCs), 69 % reported referring their patients to family planning providers, like Planned Parenthood health centers, for family planning care.

With more than 17 million women in need of publicly funded family planning care, and as Americans continue to deal with challenging economic times, now is the time to invest in the national family planning program, not cut its funding.

Politicians are trying to cut access to family planning care, including birth control and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment for Missourians insured through Medicaid.

Politicians are attempting to use HB 2010 and HB 2011 — the budgets for the Dept. of Health and Senior Services and the Dept. of Social Services — to cut access to family planning care, including birth control and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment for patients insured through MO HealthNet, Missouri's Medicaid program.

Politicians are attempting to use the budget to cut access to family planning care, including birth control and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment for patients insured through MO HealthNet, Missouri's Medicaid program.

In a study of CHCs, 69 % reported referring their patients to family planning providers, like Planned Parenthood health centers, for family planning care.