Partnership improves access to contraceptives at community health centers
COLOMBIA, South Carolina, December 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — New Morning, a Caroline from the south non-profit organization leading the largest state-based birth control access program in the United States, announced new data showing it has increased women’s access to contraceptive services by 957 per 100 out of 18 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) since 2016. FQHCs have provided family planning, counseling and contraceptive services to nearly 60,000 women. The majority of their patients are low income and uninsured or underinsured.
This extraordinary growth highlights Caroline from the south women’s need and desire for family planning services, which reduce the number of unwanted or mistimed pregnancies and promote healthier birth outcomes.
New Morning’s program offers eight free or low-cost FDA-approved birth control methods through a network of more than 119 clinical sites across the state. The clinical network provided contraceptive services to a total of 306,000 women. The program has enabled many FQHCs, rural health practices, and other clinics to purchase and offer high-quality contraceptive services for the first time.
The South Carolina Primary Health Care Association, an umbrella organization for community health centers in Caroline from the southhas been an integral partner in facilitating a collaborative relationship between FQHC and New Morning.
“Our Community Health Centers provide primary health care, prevention, education and case management to their patients at all stages of life. New Morning has offered to help FQHCs to expanding and improving integrated contraceptive services and the phenomenal growth in the number of patients served speaks to the real need for these services,” said Lathran Woodard, CEO of the South Carolina Primary Health Care Association.
About the new morning
Founded in 2002 with private funding, New Morning is a nonprofit organization that has spent its two decades advocating for increased education and access to birth control across Caroline from the south. For more information, visit newmorning.org.
SOURCE New Morning
