Are Neighborhood Health Centers Providing Services Efficiently to the Most Needy?

Federally funded neighborhood health centers provide a wide range of ambulatory health services to residents, primarily the urban poor, of the areas designated as medically underserved. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) funds 112 neighborhood health centers; such centers received most of the $197 million appropriated in fiscal year 1976 for the HEW Community Health Centers Program.