Migrant
Health Voucher Programs
Of the 134 Migrant Health Program grantees funded by HRSA
as of January 2007, 21 Migrant Health grantees were structured
as Migrant Health Voucher Programs.
The Migrant Health Voucher Programs funded by HRSA provide
the same comprehensive primary and preventive health services
required of all health center program grantees. They provide
access to care to the same types of farmworker patients, and
meet the same federal program requirements applied to all
health center program grantees. Where Voucher Programs differ
from health centers, for the most part, is in how the arrangement
for patient service delivery is structured. Where health centers
generally provide services on-site, most Voucher Programs
contract to purchase primary and preventive care for patients
from established community providers.
Migrant grantees may be structured as voucher programs rather
than health centers when:
• the number of farmworkers requiring care are thinly
distributed over a large geographic area;
• these geographic areas are characterized by limited
agribusiness or short harvesting periods;
• existing provider organizations cannot or will not
serve as direct migrant grant recipients; and
• existing providers have the capacity to meet the primary
care needs of the farmworker population.
Migrant Voucher Programs currently serve farmworkers in 20
states including Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts/Connecticut,
Minnesota/North Dakota, Montana, New York (2 programs), Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Utah, Iowa, Georgia, Maine, Nebraska, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wyoming.
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