Dick Bohrer joins the Look Alike Advocacy group to discuss history and background to FQHC Look-Alikes, part of the advocacy groups educational webinar series. Click here to watch!

Build Back Better investment in health centers reduced from $10bil to $1 bil. Read more and act now!

Introduce your Board of Directors to our advocacy efforts. We’ve developed a template letter for Board Members to use, urging representatives to push for inclusion of Look-Alikes in the Build Back Better infrastructure package.

September 27th, 62 Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Look-Alikes (LAL) submitted an open letter to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Read it here.

$10 billion in Build Back Better Act funding set aside for community health centers to include Look-Alikes. Read more here.

LALs excluded from health infrastructure funding. The Wright Center shares a list of talking points for infrastructure advocacy efforts. Read more here.

HRSA announces $145 mil in grant funding for LALs but they must apply by 5/14/2021 to receive funds! Read more.

Draft bill from the Energy and Commerce Committee includes LALs as eligible entities, upon recommendation by HRSA. Read more!

NACHC has launched a LAL Learning Collaborative! A 4 month curriculum that begins in March. Apply by February 8th! Click here to learn more.

New connections and ideas in 2021. Let’s keep things moving and do some good work for our LAL community.

Alive and kickin, let’s make 2021 the year for Look-Alikes.

Friday 10/16 at 3 PM EST - Zoom call open to LALs to brainstorm LAL-specific issues and NAP critiques, to pass along to NACHC and HRSA.

HRSA hosts another LAL-ECT webinar this Tuesday regarding the quarterly progress reports. LAL Annual Certification Applications season is upon us. Have questions? Ask!