About Our Program Sites
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About Our Program Sites
About our Program Sites
In addition to the brief summaries of each of our service sites below,
Community HealthCorps will be releasing special "Program Spotlight" articles about each of the sites. To view previously published Program Spotlight articles, click on the link below the program logo!
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AltaMed Health Services provides coordinated, culturally appropriate health and human services throughout low-income communities of color in Los Angeles and Orange counties. AltaMed’s mission is “to increase access to comprehensive health and human services to multi-ethnic and Latino medically underserved communities in southern California” with a fundamental commitment to provide medical care to the indigent, uninsured/underinsured, and those in need without regard to the ability to pay or barriers to access.
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Alliance for Rural Community Health’s (ARCH) mission is to assist and support Alliance members in providing quality healthcare to individuals and improving the health of their communities in northern California. The areas of service currently include: Mendocino, Lake, and northern parts of Sonoma counties, and is comprised of health centers and non-profit organizations that provide care to underserved individuals.
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Brownsville Community Health Center (BCHC) is located in the southernmost tip of Texas (less than one mile from the Mexican border) is the primary provider of health care to the uninsured and underinsured of Cameron county. BCHC utilizes the talents of its Community HealthCorps members to compliment the work of staff, by providing outreach to potential patients, referring patients to physicians in the community, enrolling patients in public insurance programs, providing education and information to diabetic patients, performing health education, disseminating information on radiology and lab procedures, helping patients with mental health needs, and more.
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The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers is a ten-year old strategic initiative designed to improve the quality, capacity, and accessibility of the healthcare system for vulnerable residents of Camden, New Jersey. They believe innovative thinking, rigorous data analysis, and community-based solutions can improve quality of care and bend the cost curve of healthcare. Community HealthCorps volunteers directly strengthen primary and preventative services in Camden in health coaching, community health education, and practice transformation capacities.
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The Central Valley Health Network (CVHN) focus is to build capacity at health centers to reduce cultural and linguistic barriers to care and increase access to care for vulnerable patients that are disenfranchised by health professional shortages in the Central Valley. Community HealthCorps members spearhead improvements in community health, patient advocacy, and future healthcare professional development arenas.
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Cherry Street Health Services (CSHS) is a Federally Qualified Community Health Center that serves the Kent and surrounding counties, operating twelve health centers and two traveling school centers that provide comprehensive healthcare to medically underserved populations. These populations demonstrate disparities in health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, depression and infant mortality. CSHS currently see’s over 50,000 patients and with the addition of the planned future health centers will add approximately 10,000 to 20,000 more patients to the practice.
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The Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) serves and represents the interests of its free and community clinic Members. Our 47 Members operate over 145 full-time primary care sites in L.A. County. They provide quality primary care (including medical, dental and mental health services) for the uninsured and medically underserved populations. Community HealthCorps Navigators at CCALAC serve at community and free clinics to increase access and utilization of primary and preventative healthcare services. Navigators assist community clinic patients and community residents throughout culturally diverse neighborhoods of L.A. County to access and utilize available health resources to maintain and improve their health. They provide culturally and linguistically appropriate health education, outreach, referrals and enrollment into programs, while gaining the skills needed to pursue a health profession.
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The Community Health Center Association of Connecticut is a statewide association of FQHCs that help provide access to the highest quality healthcare and social services to Connecticut’s underserved populations, providing services to the three largest and poorest cities in the state (Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven) in addition to Stamford and Waterbury.
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The Community Health Center, Inc. is a multi-site organization that stretches the width of Connecticut and provides world class primary care at twelve fixed sites and mobile services in twenty cities and towns for over 70,000 of their neighbors with low incomes.
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Community Health Integrated Partnership, Inc. (CHIP) is a Health Resources & Services Administration - designated Health Center Controlled Network. CHIP was formed for health centers to work together, share resources and best practices, and participate in joint projects to help contain costs. CHIP’s current membership consists of nine health centers, with 46 delivery sites providing comprehensive primary health care and enabling services to patients in isolated rural communities and / or high risk urban environments.
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COSSMA, Inc. provides comprehensive healthcare services to mostly rural communities in the central/eastern part of the island of Puerto Rico. The Community HealthCorps project is directed to increase access by increasing awareness through community outreach, community activities and promotion about COSSMA’s excellent and accessible primary and preventive health services and programs. Community HealthCorps members improve utilization by assisting patients to navigate through COSSMA’s healthcare system and appropriately use all services available.
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The District of Columbia Primary Care Association (DCPCA) is a federally-funded primary care association working to improve the health and well-being of low-income, medically vulnerable residents of the District of Columbia. Community HealthCorps members are placed at member health centers of DCPCA, as well as other community sites, to conduct outreach and education that increases access to health services, improves service utilization, and enhances the capacity of the community and its volunteer networks to better meet the needs of underserved District residents.
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The Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) and the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center serve densely populated urban areas in and around Boston with more the 13,000 and 55,000 patients, respectively. BHCHP provides services to homeless men, women, and children in more than 80 locations throughout greater Boston, including shelters, hospitals, a medical respite facility, and streets and alleys. The two health centers capitalize on the skills and enthusiasm of Community HealthCorps members in the provision of services to their patients, as well as offering exceptional professional development to participants.
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The Family HealthCare Network Community HealthCorps members are critical community volunteers that are essential to helping individual’s access primary care services, navigate the healthcare system and create a strong community volunteer pool of individuals for special service learning projects.
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The Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers provide comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare through six community health centers serving low income, uninsured and underinsured residents in 45 census tracts in the City of St. Louis and St. Louis county. These services include preventive care in pediatrics, adult medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, dental, mental health, and ophthalmology.
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The Health Center Association of Nebraska (HCAN) is a nonprofit primary care organization whose mission is to enhance and expand access to quality, community-responsive healthcare for Nebraska’s medically underserved and uninsured. Members of HCAN are federally-qualified Community Health Centers (CHCs) that provide medical, dental, and mental health services for over 63,000 Nebraskans. Established in 2011, the Health Center Association of Nebraska is funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration.
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The Heart of Texas Community Health Center (HOTCHC) is located in Waco, TX, providing primary healthcare services for the vulnerable in McLennan County. HOTCHC’s Community HealthCorps program addresses many of the challenges and needs faced by the vulnerable residents of McLennan County through extensive outreach, peer-to-peer services, removing barriers to care, inspiring a generation of volunteerism, empowering neighborhood residents through participation in various service projects in which Community HealthCorps members initiate, assisting and encouraging future development through education and continued services.
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Hudson River HealthCare, Inc. is a not-for-profit, New York State licensed, federally funded community and migrant health center delivering primary, preventative and behavioral healthcare services to patients throughout southeastern New York, and linking them, as needed, to a well-developed and highly responsive referral care network. AmeriCorps members at Hudson River HealthCare, Inc. display the commitment and energy needed for creative program development, as well as critical support in responding to the compelling needs identified in HRHCare’s communities.
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The Idaho Community HealthCorps (Institute of Rural Health) program focuses on a variety of needs, from reaching out to the Hispanic/Latino community to promote healthier lifestyles for the young and old. Through the activities of members, Hispanic/Latino populations are educated on important health issues, as well as receiving the healthcare they drastically need.
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The Institute for Family Health operates 17 full-time and 9 part-time federally funded community health centers throughout Manhattan, the Bronx, and the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York state. Community HealthCorps members at the Institute for Family Health provide health education and outreach related to diabetes, depression, pre-natal care, reproductive health, teen health and health disparities in the three regions served.
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LifeLong Medical Care delivers high quality health and social services to low-income and uninsured residents of all ages in Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin counties of northern California. Community HealthCorps members representation at their service sites strengthen their ability to reach more uninsured, low-income community residents in need of health and social services, and improves access to primary and preventive health services for which they are eligible. Community outreach, education, enrollment, creating opportunities and assessing needs resulting from continued high rates of unemployment and a growing uninsured population are some of the areas that members focus on.
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The Louisiana Primary Care Association (LPCA) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote accessible, affordable, quality primary health care for the uninsured and medically underserved populations in Louisiana. LPCA accomplishes its goals by providing a myriad of support services. These services include: community development, health information technology (HIT), quality assurance and improvement, community outreach, workforce development, membership services, fiscal analysis, and emergency preparedness.
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The mission of Lutheran Family Health Centers is to improve the overall health of the communities served by delivering high quality, culturally competent primary care and related services within community-based settings. HealthCorps members at LFHC address unmet health needs both as case managers who link families to health and social services, and as health educators who support the practice of healthy behaviors. Members also increase the capacity of the health center through the recruitment of community volunteers.
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The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers is a Primary Care Association which has 52 member community health centers throughout the state of Massachusetts. Their Community HealthCorps members are involved in programs such as childhood obesity prevention, women’s health issues, sexual health education, case management, cancer prevention, nutrition education, HIV/Aids awareness and prevention, violence prevention and other preventive activities.
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The Metro Community Provider Network’s (MCPN) mission is to provide excellent health related services focusing on the underserved. These services include medical, dental, mental health, and enabling services. MCPN has ten clinics located in targeted underserved areas, which servce Arapahoe, Jefferson, Adams and Park counties, as well as the cities of Lakewood and Aurora.
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The Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (OACHC) is dedicated to the promotion of high quality, family-oriented, culturally competent healthcare with a special focus on medically underserved areas. Community HealthCorps members at OACHC evaluate client eligibility for Medicaid and other types of insurance programs, as well as recruit, register, and enroll patients into health center programs designed to access free or reduced healthcare and overcome healthcare disparities.
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Open Door Family Medical Center is the largest provider of healthcare for low income patients in Westchester, NY, and provides quality healthcare and human services at affordable prices to the community. Through well-designed outreach and education activities, Community HealthCorps members increase access to healthcare, improve the utilization of healthcare services, and give patients the tools and knowledge to make healthier choices for themselves and their families.
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Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC) provides high quality, comprehensive, integrated healthcare services to a large, mostly rural, region of Maine. Community HealthCorps members at PCHC work to improve the quality of healthcare received by members of the community by enrolling patients in prescription programs, supporting families in navigating the healthcare and social service systems, and screening and assisting patients in applying for health benefit programs.
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The Ryan Chelsea Clinton Community Health Center Community HealthCorps program’s mission is “to increase access to affordable healthcare and to encourage community participation at network sites through sponsored AmeriCorps support and collaborations with community partners.” AmeriCorps members provide services such as diabetes care management, eligibility services, patient navigation, outreach, cancer prevention and HIV service throughout the Ryan Network located in underserved communities.
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Salud Family Health Centers is dedicated to providing quality, comprehensive primary health services with attention to the low-income and vulnerable populations. Salud Family Health Centers provide a strong delivery system operating nine clinics located in nine communities, along with a mobile unit. Their mission is to ensure access and reduce barriers to care.
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San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium places Community HealthCorps members in community clinics and healthcare organizations to increase access and utilization of primary and preventative healthcare services. Members assist health center patients and community residents in San Francisco’s culturally diverse neighborhoods to access and utilize available health resources to maintain and improve their health. They provide culturally and linguistically appropriate health education, outreach, referrals and enrollment into programs, while gaining the skills needed to pursue a health profession.
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Sea Mar Community Health Center is committed to providing high-quality, comprehensive health and human services to diverse communities, including low-income, underserved and the uninsured. Sea Mar specializes in services to Latinos and is an innovative leader in the delivery of bilingual and culturally appropriate healthcare and social services. Community HealthCorps members are placed in positions to provide assistance with translation services, low-cost prescription programs, successful internal and external referrals, case management services, and health education programming. Members also facilitate community outreach, volunteer recruitment, and promote early literacy programming.
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Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (SSCHC) is located in Milwaukee, WI and provides an array of medical, mental health, environmental health, and social services, all of which are provided in English and Spanish, and Hmong and Laotian as needed. Preventive services for patients and community residents are a primary focus of SSCHC’s mission and the Community HealthCorps program has enabled the health center to expand their ability to reach and educate residents of the community.
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Syracuse Community Health Center's primary mission is to provide comprehensive, quality, healthcare services to all individuals with a commitment to those who might otherwise be excluded from the healthcare system while remaining cost effective, efficient and competitive. Community HealthCorps members conduct health outreach, enroll clients in health insurance and health center programs, and develop and administer health education programs for youth and adult populations.
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United Neighborhood Health Services (UNHS) works to increase access to healthcare and to improve the health status of underserved and vulnerable people in Nashville/Davidson county and Middle Tennessee. Community HealthCorps members increase access to health services by making referrals, enrolling patients into programs, reminder calls, performing community outreach, translating, scheduling appointments, providing health education to individuals and groups, participating in health fairs, promoting monthly health awareness campaigns, promoting volunteerism in the community by hosting service projects, training volunteers to serve in UNHS facilities, and partnering with other volunteer-based programs.
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Yakima Valley Farm Worker’s Clinic (YVFWC) provides primary and preventive health services and programs to consumers in Washington and Oregon. YVFWC places Community HealthCorps members in seven clinics in Yakima County, southeast Washington. Members provide residents with health information and health service/program materials, screen them for eligibility, refer them to services/programs, enroll them in health and health insurance programs, schedule appointments, and enter data in electronic medical records.
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