Rhode Island Health Center Facts
In 2009, community health centers served approximately 120,000 residents in Rhode Island.
In addition, community health centers provided over 500,000 patient visits.
- RIHCA has ten organizational members eight are 330 Federally Qualified Health
Centers (FQHC), one is a look-alike FQHC, two have school-based health centers, two have
a 330h Healthcare for the Homeless program, and one is an island based community health
center. Among the ten health centers, there are 27 locations around the
state including urban, rural, suburban, and island areas.
- 30% of patients were uninsured (nearly 36,000 patients, including over 8,000 children).
Community health centers are open to all residents, regardless of insurance status
or ability to pay by offering sliding fee scale. (2009 Uniform Data System)
- 21% of community health center patients were privately insured (over 24,000 patients).
(2009 Uniform Data System)
- Our dental clinics served over 35,000 patients with over 100,000 patient visits.
(2009 Uniform Data System)
- Over 4,000 patients received behavioral health services including over 21,000 patient visits.
(2009 Uniform Data System)
- All community health centers participate in the Rhode Island Chronic Care Collaborative
(RICCC), an in-state collaborative effort to examine innovative ways to manage patients
with chronic illnesses.
- The Chronic Care Sustainability Initiative of Rhode Island (CSI-RI), funded by the
Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) with the goal of improving the delivery
of primary care services to those with chronic illness through advancing the patient-centered
medical home concept, includes Thundermist Health Center West Warwick office as one of the five
medical practices selected for participation in the project.
For more information about Rhode Island's community health centers view our 2008 data book.