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Advance Community Health in Raleigh, North Carolina, celebrated its 4th annual End of Summer Block Party in August. Hosted during National Health Center Week, the event raised awareness about the contributions of health centers to the health care landscape. It included food trucks, inflatables, face painting, a live DJ, a laptop raffle, and a giveaway of 500 free backpacks and school supply packs.
For a time, it seemed as if fewer doctors and nurses were focusing on women in rural Oklahoma as some practitioners retired or shifted their focus.
In California, wildfires have become annual events. They destroy hundreds of thousands of acres of land and contaminate the air with toxic pollutants.
When Trish Collett joined the staff of Community Care of West Virginia as a physician’s assistant, she was the fourth medical provider on a staff of 23 people. N
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A 70-year-old patient recently came to the SWLA Center for Health Services to pick up medication at the pharmacy.
Some days the Lānaʻi 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.