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| Healthy Match Clinic |
| Published Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:00 am |
Pledge your donation of natural products today! You may offer an at-large contribution, or you may offer a donation directly to the community health center of your choice:
Creating Health Institute — Spokane, Washington
Erie Family Health Center — Chicago, Illinois
Fourth Street Clinic — Salt Lake City, Utah
Leahy Center Clinic for the Uninsured — Scranton, Pennsylvania
NO/AIDS Task Force — New Orleans, Louisiana
North by Northeast Community Health Center — Portland, Oregon
The Community Medical Clinic at Sarasota Memorial — Sarasota, Florida
West Side Community Services — Saint Paul, Minnesota
Creating Health Institute
About
A Pacific Northwest non-profit with programs active all over the world, Creating Health Institute has provided essential natural assistance for individuals with limited means since 1989. CHI is a resource for low-income individuals, seniors, veterans, and those living on reservations in the United States. The focus of the organization's work is natural public health, and CHI has a 100% volunteer staff.
One of the organization's primary programs at present is to assist with health concerns through the Silver Valley Community Resource Center in Kellogg, Idaho. This center is located in a lead superfund site community. CHI's efforts have focused on educating residents of the dangers they face and distributing supplements to help safeguard residents' health. Any donations of nutritional supplements would be welcomed for this community effort.
Main Items of Interest for Donations
- Multivitamins
- Mineral Supplements
- Herbal Supplements
- And any other Nutritional Supplements
Make Your Donation
If you would be interested in making a donation to Creating Health Institute, please click here: Creating Health Institute Donations
For more info about this organization, click here: leaflady.org
Erie Family Health Center
About With the assistance of Northwestern University medical students and community volunteers, the clinic began providing geriatric health care services two evenings a week. Over the next 10 years, Northwestern medical students expressed a growing interest in staffing a student-run clinic to provide community based medical services for low-income families. This dream was realized in 1968, when Erie expanded its services to serve low-income children and adults.
By 1970, Erie had evolved into a full-service community health center and was officially incorporated as a separate entity from Erie Neighborhood House. The 1980s brought more growth and change: The Erie Senior Health Center was established onsite at a high-rise apartment complex for senior citizens. The Erie Teen Health Center was converted from a makeshift clinic in an apartment into a full-fledged clinic in 1985. In 1986, the original health center moved from Erie Street to Chicago Avenue. Erie established a full service Humboldt Park health center in 1986. In 1988, Chicago’s mayor declared October 6 Erie Family Health Center Day in recognition of Erie’s contributions to the health and well-being of Chicago’s medically underserved communities.
Today, Erie serves approximately 30,000 patients a year—many from low-income Hispanic families—at nine health centers, including three large primary care centers, a teen health center, three elementary school based health centers and two oral health centers.
The Erie Family Health Center was founded in 1957 to provide onsite medical care for senior citizens at Erie Neighborhood House, a community center for immigrants in West Town, Chicago.
Make Your Donation
If you would be interested in making a donation to Erie Family Health Center, please click here: Erie Family Donations
For more info about this organization, click here: eriefamilyhealth.org
Fourth Street Clinic
About Allan Ainsworth, PhD. founded Fourth Street Clinic in 1988 to give
Salt Lake City’s newly homeless, uninsured, and often very sick
population access to primary care services and a chance at health and
new housing. Opening with a part-time nurse, Fourth Street Clinic is
now a full-service health home that offers coordinated primary care,
behavioral health and pharmacy services. Forty staff members, 35
in-house medical volunteers and over 200 off-site specialists who see
patients on a pro bono basis serve nearly 6,000 patients each year.
In 2008, nearly 6,000 patients made Fourth Street Clinic their place
for primary health care and were served with 26,000 office visits.
Located
in Salt Lake City, Fourth Street Clinic is a nonprofit organization
that works to end homelessness by providing comprehensive health care
and support services to homeless Utahns. For many of the clinic's
patients, Fourth Street is the only chance at proper diagnosis and
treatment. Good physical and mental health is the foundation for
transitioning back into permanent housing.
Main Items of Interest for Donations
- Vitamins B1, B6, B12
- Vitamin C, 500 mg
- Calcium D1 or plain, 600 mg
- Fish Oil
- Folic Acid, 1 mg
- Magnesium Oxide, 400 mg
- Niacin sustained release, 500 mg
Make Your Donation
If you would be interested in making a donation to Fourth Street Clinic, please click here: Fourth Street Donations
For more info about this organization, click here: fourthstreetclinic.org
Leahy Center Clinic for the Uninsured
About
The Leahy Clinic is a free clinic offering primary care services to the uninsured residents of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The Leahy Clinic offers free "non-emergency" health care to uninsured residents who may otherwise forgo health care due to cost, or seek care in hospital emergency rooms. The Clinic strives to provide high quality care in a welcoming, respectful and compassionate environment. The Leahy Center Clinic offers opportunities for teaching, research, learning, and service to University of Service faculty, students and volunteers. This partnership promotes the Lackawanna County Medical Society's commitment to improve access to health care for the uninsured, and the University of Scranton's Jesuit tradition of educating "young men and women for and with others".
Make Your Donation
If you would be interested in making a donation to
Leahy Center Clinic for the Uninsured, please click here: Leahy Clinic Donations
For more info about this organization, click here: scranton.edu/leahyendowment
NO/AIDS Task Force
About
NO/AIDS Task Force is the oldest HIV/AIDS service organization in the Gulf South and was founded in 1983 in response to the early devastating effects of the AIDS epidemic in the New Orleans area. The program expanded by offering an AIDS Information Center and Hotline in 1985. In the following years, the agency expanded its services, responding to the various communities impacted by the epidemic as it continued to affect diverse populations. Case management and mental health services were added in 1990. A meal delivery program was added in 1992 and a community mobilization project with offices in the French Quarter/Marigny was added in 2000. Services were expanded to the Houma/Thibodeaux area in 2001.
Today, the agency offers a continuum of services, including prevention education (street and community outreach, venue-based outreach, condom distribution and community mobilization targeting men who have sex with men), HIV antibody testing and counseling, the statewide HIV/AIDS hotline, case management, case finding, housing coordination, early intervention/primary medical care, mental health, support groups, home delivered meals, food bank, peer support services, housing case management, and medication disbursement.
NO/AIDS Task Force serves all individuals, regardless of gender, sexual orientation or identity, race, ethnicity, religion, education, or socioeconomic status. The clients served by the agency over the past nineteen years have been those individuals and communities most impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This has included men who have sex with men, women, commercial sex workers, African Americans, Latino/as, and injecting drug users. Additionally, the agency offers its services in rural areas.
Main Items of Interest for Donations
- Multivitamins
- Personal Care Items
Make Your Donation
If you would be interested in making a donation to NO/AIDS Task Force, please click here: NO/AIDS Donations
For more info about this organization, click here: noaidstaskforce.com
North by Northeast Community Health Center
About
Founded in 2006, North by Northeast Community Health Center assists a medically under-served community by offering health screening and basic medical services at no cost to patients. Priority is given to low-income individuals without health insurance living in the North/Northeast neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon.
Make Your Donation
If you would be interested in making a donation to North by Northeast Community Health Center, please click here: North by Northeast Donations
For more info about this organization, click here: nxneclinic.org
The Community Medical Clinic at Sarasota Memorial Hospital
About
The Community Medical Clinic at Sarasota Memorial Hospital is designed to provide specialty care referral services for Sarasota County residents who truly demonstrate a financial need. The clinic provides access to care for those individuals who are uninsured or underinsured, or those who do not have the financial resources to receive specialty care elsewhere is the primary goal. All doctors who work with the clinic are volunteers, and patients are not charged for their visits.
Main Items of Interest for Donations
- Multivitamins
- Fish Oil
- Vitamin C
- CoEnzyme Q10
- Calcium/Magnesium
Make Your Donation
If you would be interested in making a donation to the Community Medical Clinic at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, please click here: Community Medical Clinic Donations
For more information about this organization, click here: smh.com
West Side Community Services
About
Since 1969, West Side Community Health Services has been a progressive model of care in Saint Paul, Minnesota, emphasizing education, prevention, and integrated services using multilingual/multicultural expertise to provide accessible health care to diverse communities. Providing high-quality patient-focused health care that is evidence-based, West Side works to educate patients and to get them actively involved in their own health care. All visitors are cared for, whatever their means, with deep compassion and respect.
West Side provides a community voice for Latino, Hmong, and adolescent health care issues in urban neighborhoods, schools, public housing campuses, and homeless shelters. The organization has served as a community cornerstone, providing services, employing local residents, and contributing to community vitality.
Make Your Donation
If you would be interested in making a donation to West Side Community Health Services, please click here: West Side Donations
For more info about this organization, click here: westsidechs.org
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