Community Health Centers – Ohio

Community health centers growing in central Ohio amid Medicaid expansion, By Ben Sutherly, October 12, 2015, Columbus Dispatch: “Last month, Candi Pringle quit her half-pack-a-day habit of 38 years. Since then, Pringle’s blood pressure has dropped, and her back pain has eased. When the urge to smoke surfaces, the 50-year-old Columbus woman said she goes for a walk instead. She credits the positive health strides she has made in part to her local community health center on E. 17th Avenue. Known as St. Stephen’s by many, it’s part of PrimaryOne Health, formerly known as the Columbus Neighborhood Health Center.  Pringle is familiar with the stigma surrounding community health centers such as hers: It’s just for people who are uninsured or on Medicaid…”