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51 2022 House Jake Auchincloss Auchincloss Jake A000148 Democrat MA   Labor HHS Manet Community Health Center A satellite clinic in Attleboro MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER A SATELLITE CLINIC IN ATTLEBORO Community Health Centers like Manet demonstrate that communities can improve health, reduce health inequities, promote health care and enabling services access, and generate taxpayer savings. Moreover, Manet when placed in a community serves as a community partner, and local economic engine effectively addressing a multitude of costly and significant public health problems, including epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19, the flu, persistent diseases, mental health and substance use disorders, maternal child and elder health while providing quality, accessible, care and innovative services including Telehealth six days per week including weekend, and evenings, which turn no patient away. Attleboro and the service area’s residents have high rates of asthma, diabetes, and several types of cancer. High blood pressure affects 29% of residents and they utilize area EDs at disproportionately high rates for cardiovascular disease and stroke. Bristol County’s residents experience preventable hospital stays at a significantly higher rate than residents of the state or the nation. Manet’s Attleboro site will help alleviate pressures on hospitals to respond to primary care concerns, reduce unneeded ED visits, and provide prevention education and screening that will reduce poor health outcomes.Importantly, Manet, and federally qualified health centers are and must be governed by the Patients they exist to serve with a Patient majority Board of Directors which is consistently maintained and representative from the local communities. 110 West Squantum St., Quincy, MA 02171 500385