Build an E-Mail Script
Use the Information Below to Build Your Own Follow-Up E-Mail Script
STEP 1: Conversation Recap
Name, Title, and Community Health Center
Date, Time & Parties on Your Last Call
Recap the Conversation:
As a FQHC Look-Alike, we are not eligible to receive the $8.9 billion in stimulus funds set aside for Community Health Centers because our specific type of designation falls under the Social Security Act and not the Public Health Services Act.
Without federal stimulus funding, we struggle to [insert issues of access, inequity, sustainability, turnover, etc.].
We serve [2020 UDS number] patients and to date have tested [number] patients and vaccinated [number] for COVID-19. We could do far better with greater financial support.
Stress that the center is an economic driver and let them know how many staff have been: 1) laid off; 2) furloughed; 3) absent from work due to symptoms.; 4) left for other employment due to burnout and uncertainty.
STEP 2: Ask for Confirmation of Support
Attach a copy of the letter published by NACHC, dated April 8th, requesting the PHS Act be amended to allow for Look-Alikes to receive emergency and supplemental funding.
Calculate how much you would have received from the federal government, if you were a grantee (click here for calculator), and tell them what good those funds could do for your clinic and patients.
Ask they Become a Partner of www.lookalikeadvocacy.com
Request in writing, “can we count on your support?”
STEP 3: Request a Follow-Up Call
Request a date and time one week in advance for a follow-up call.
If they plan on being absent, establish a second point of contact in their offices and schedule the call with this individual.
Be persistent.
