Health centers are experiencing a shortage of obstetricians/gynecologists. In fact. 3040 percent of all centers do not have staff obstetricians/gynecologists and must contract out for these services or simply not offer prenatal care. This limitation has a tremendous effect on the 1.8 million women of childbearing ages who depend on community and migrant health centers for prenatal care and family planning services. Who depends on these centers? Six million Americans a year receive care from community and migrant health centers. Of these 6 million patients. 4 million are minorities and 2.5 million are children. Community and migrant health centers also play a key role in delivering health care services to the homeless of our society. serving over 300.000 homeless Americans. Community and migrant health centers are a main source of primary care for this Nations uninsured. In a report by the National Association of Community Health Centers. they estimate that 49 percent of patients treated at these health centers are uninsured Americans. The remaining 51 percent a e a mixture of Medicare and Medica id clients. and a small number of privately insured patients. In my home State of Colorado. 243.634 patients were treated by community and migrant health centers in 1990 at an average cost of $206 per patient. 65 percent of the patients treated at the 14 community and migrant health centers in Colorado do not have insurance. 30 percent of all patients were children under the age of 14. 12 percent were migrant and seasonal farmworkers. In my hometown of Greeley. the Sunrise Community Health Center has had to stop seeing new patients from outside of Weld County due to limited resources. Mr.