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Texas community health centers fear layoffs, closures without federal funding

Twenty-three million people — including 1.3 million Texans — may lose access to community health centers in the next several weeks if the federal government doesn’t renew funding for them.

By MARISSA EVANS, The Texas Tribune
Posted 2/10/18

Karina Ramirez has been going to community health centers with her family all of her life. It’s affordable, the Nuestra Clinica del Valle is only 15 minutes away from her home in Mercedes, …

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