Letters to the Editor for October 22, 2022

Thank you to Sen. Rose, Rep. Lee for MOBILE Health Care Act

Nevada Primary Care Association and Nevada’s Community Health Centers (CHCs), which serve more than 111,000 Nevadans, would like to express our profound appreciation to Sen. Jacky Rosen and Rep. Susie Lee for sponsoring and passing the MOBILE Health Care Act. CHCs are community-based and patient-directed organizations that serve populations with limited access to health care. This bill will benefit health center patients across the country but particularly in Nevada.

A provider shortage has continued to be a problem in Nevada. Enhancing our ability to provide care to our many rural communities that don’t have a clinic or to those with transportation barriers is essential to reducing the health disparities that Nevadans face compared to the rest of the nation. This is exactly what the MOBILE Health Care Act will do by allowing health centers to finance mobile health services in places with no permanent health center clinic.

We would also like to commend Lee and Rosen on the bipartisan approach they took in promoting this bill. More than 1,300 Community Health Centers are proud to serve nearly every congressional district in the nation, and that was reflected in the near unanimous passage of the bill through both chambers. We are also keenly aware that good policy does not pass by itself, and this result reflects impressive work by both members of Congress and their respective offices.

With passage of this bill, we are eager to put it to use improving access to high quality health care for Nevadans.

Nancy Bowen

CEO at NVPCA

Carson City