HRSA-funded health centers across the nation have distinguished themselves in promoting public health and providing primary care services in underserved areas. The examples below are a snapshot of the exemplary work health centers have carried out across the country.
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Lāna’i Community Health Center engages in many outreach activities. Pictured is a gathering on Prince Kūhiō Day, an official state holiday celebrated annually on March 26 to honor the state’s history and culture. Read more in the Lāna’i Community Health Center story.
Some days the Lāna’i Community Health Center acts as medical clinic, a communications hub and a veritable travel agency all at once.
The Family Health Care Clinic, based in Pearl, Mississippi, recently decided to focus on a group of patients who had three simultaneous conditions: diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.
David Mark, the CEO at One Health in Hardin, Montana, describes the health center’s service area as having more antelopes than people “We’re beyond rural,” he said.
Imagine cramming medical supplies into a suitcase before driving to a remote field to visit patients.
Staff members remember the day a patient came in for a dental appointment; he was extraordinarily agitated.
Providing care to prevent and address COVID-19 has been especially challenging in rural areas, yet health centers have persevered and proactively tried new approaches to serve their communities throughout the pandemic.
In January 2022, Keystone Rural Health Center (Chambersburg, PA) received 16,200 COVID-19 at-home self-tests through the HRSA COVID-19 Testing Supply Program. One of the health center’s focuses is providing health care to migrant and seasonal agricultural workers (MSAWs) in Franklin County.