Yes on Prop 44

[Brad Forschner]

A “yes” vote supports this initiative to require nonprofit federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) to spend at least 90% of their annual total revenue on expenses that advance the health center’s mission.

 

Brisa Barrera, a healthcare worker at a community clinic in Santa Rosa:

“We’re calling for accountability because frontline workers and patients at community clinics deserve better. Clinics receive public dollars to serve vulnerable populations, but when that money is siphoned off for bloated administrative costs, it’s the patients and workers who suffer. This measure ensures that resources go where they’re needed most: into the clinics and toward care.”

Renée Saldaña, spokesperson for SEIU-UHW:

“The measure is designed to direct more funding into patient services and programs that are key to (a federally qualified health center’s) mission. That is not merely patient care, but encompasses all the ancillary services they provide in addition to direct patient care. There is no limitation that it be only direct patient care spending in the initiative.”

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