Check whether
the site has safety nets.
Not exact matches
Many parenting
sites have a long list of things you should take along, including baby gates (to corral the kid),
safety netting (for balconies), toilet latches, and more.
In order to serve all the women currently obtaining contraceptive services at Planned Parenthood health centers nationwide, other types of
safety -
net family planning providers
would have to increase their client caseloads by 47 %, on average.2 Federally qualified health center (FQHC)
sites offering contraceptive care, hospital
sites and others
would have to increase their capacity by more than half (see chart 1).2
Sites operated by public health departments nationwide
would have to increase their contraceptive client caseloads by a lesser proportion.
In 390 (19 %) counties with Title X
sites, FQHC
sites are either the only Title X provider (183 counties) or
would have to increase their capacity by less than double (207 counties); 9 % of
safety -
net contraceptive clients served at non-FQHC Title X
sites live in these counties (see Table 4).
FQHC
sites providing contraceptive care in all but one state (North Dakota, which lacks any Planned Parenthood centers)
would have to expand their capacity in order to serve all of the
safety -
net contraceptive clients served by Planned Parenthood (see map below).
FQHCs are an essential part of the nation's overall health care
safety net, serving 25 million people annually, seven in 10 of whom live at or below the federal poverty level.2 Their role
has been expanded by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which invested billions of new dollars into FQHC infrastructure, driving considerable nationwide growth in the number of
sites and their capacity.3 In conjunction with their overall growth, FQHC
sites have become increasingly integral to the national publicly funded family planning effort.
This analysis shows that if congressional leadership were successful in cutting Planned Parenthood health centers out of the family planning
safety net, it
would be unrealistic to expect FQHC
sites that offer contraceptive care to fill that considerable gap.
In order to respond, we
have expanded upon the analysis that we conducted in response to your April 7, 2017 request for information concerning the availability of publicly funded contraceptive care to U.S. women, particularly from
sites operated by Planned Parenthood and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs).1 In this analysis, we assume that all the clients seeking contraceptive care who are currently served by Planned Parenthood health centers in each state
would be distributed to other types of
safety -
net family planning centers in the same proportions that contraceptive clients are currently served by each of these other types of centers.
Having expanded since implementation of the ACA, FQHCs now operate many more individual family planning
sites than do Planned Parenthood affiliates.1 However, Planned Parenthood health centers serve a disproportionately high share of clients who rely on the family planning
safety net.