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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Grace Health in Battle Creek, Michigan integrates dental care with its OB/GYN practice and pediatrics. Read more in the Grace Health story.
We celebrated National Health Center Week (NHCW). It is a week honoring the hard work of health centers (HC) across the country.
Health centers often work to integrate aspects of care to provide comprehensive services, but few have gone as far as a site run by Cherokee Health Systems in Tennessee.
The patients can be almost anywhere. An innovative teledentistry effort at Peak Vista Community Health Centers in Colorado has brought in new patients from a host of locations
Axis Bridge, a mental health urgent program created by Axis Community Health, marked its second anniversary in July 2023.
Staff members remember the day a patient came in for a dental appointment; he was extraordinarily agitated.
As it turned out, some patients really missed going to the Qi Gong and yoga classes.
Unity Care NW in Bellingham, Wash., offered the classes to encourage patients to integrate more movement and exercise into their daily lives.
Judith Watson found it unsurprising that she heard gunfire outside the Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center in New York’s Westchester County.
Health Center staff from two states offered help to residents when a freight train carrying dangerous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3, 2023.
When a senior health clinic abruptly closed earlier this year, thousands of elderly residents suddenly found themselves without access to primary health care. It did not take long before telephone call volume rose dramatically at the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center.
An apple a day is not enough to relieve depression, but a small experiment at an Iowa health center revealed that healthy food has a positive impact.