Would you want a stranger’s toothbrush in your mouth? If you use a Family HealthCare Network clinic, you might want to stock up on Listerine. A state inspection earlier this year found that unsterilized dental instruments were being used on patients. That means patients faced a real risk of picking up a dangerous disease just by going in for their dental care.
Talk about an avoidable problem. After spending $0 on IT in 2023, Omni Family Health faced a serious breach of confidential patient data that started in February of 2024, and went on for months without anyone at Omni even realizing. What were they prioritizing over protecting sensitive patient information? Maybe their CEO’s compensation of nearly a million dollars ($988,858 in 2024).
Despite spending $8,000,000 on fundraising in 2023 (20 times more than the clinic average), they managed to lose nearly $900,000 rather than bringing in any additional overall funding. How does a fundraising event manage to lose money? Maybe overpaid DAP Health management cares more about getting a fancy night on the town to mix & mingle with celebrities like Donna Karan (2023) and Barry Manilow (2025) than about whether the event actually brings in funding for their patients.
The federal government pumped more than $6 billion in basic funding grants last year into 1,375 privately run centers around the country, which provide primary care for more than 30 million mostly low-income people. In 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act provided an additional $6 billion over two years for covid-19 care.
These community health centers must take all patients regardless of their ability to pay, and, in return, they receive annual government grants and higher reimbursement rates from Medicaid and Medicare than private physicians.
Yet a KHN analysis found that a handful of the centers recorded profit margins of 20% or more in at least three of the past four years. Health policy experts said the surpluses alone should not raise concerns if the health centers are planning to use the money for patients.