Family Planning and Community Health Centers

Community health centers provide high-quality primary care services, including family planning services, to millions of patients each year, regardless of their ability to pay. However, the scope and availability of family planning services varies substantially across health centers. Jacobs Institute faculty have worked on a series of research projects in partnership with GW’s Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health to understand more about the scope of these services. Key resources from this work include:

• Rosenbaum S, Wood S, Strasser J, Sharac J, Wylie J, Tran T. “The Title X Family Planning Proposed Rule: What’s At Stake For Community Health Centers?”Health Affairs Forefront. June 2018. DOI: 10.1377/forefront.20180621.675764
• Wood S, Strasser S, Sharac J, Wylie J, Tran T, Rosenbaum S, Rosenzweig C, Sobel L, Salganicoff A. “Community Health Centers and Family Planning in an Era of Policy Uncertainty.” March 2018. https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/report/community-health-centers-and-family-planning-in-an-era-of-policy-uncertainty/
• Mead K, Beeson T, Wood S, Goldberg D, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. “The Role of Federally Qualified Health Centers in Delivering Family Planning Services to Adolescents.” Journal of Adolescent Health. July 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.03.019
• Wood S, Beeson T, Bruen B, Goldberg D, Mead K, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. “Scope of family planning services available in Federally Qualified Health Centers.” Contraception. October 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2013.09.015