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As one of only two hospitals in Yuma County, Yuma District Hospital and Clinic (YDHC) can ascertain its community's health through the County Health Needs Assessment (HNA). In 2009, an HNA identified some of the biggest health problems in Yuma: poverty, obesity, lack of accessibility to healthy…
Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the South Bronx and home to over 13,000 residents. Claremont Village and its surrounding neighborhood suffer from immense poverty, obesity, diabetes, low access to healthy foods, poor sanitation, crime and…
North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in northern Arizona. In 2010, North Country received a grant from the Kresge Foundation to create a program called Hermosa Vida that works upstream to improve the community's health outcomes. Hermosa Vida…
Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build and advocate for a healthy community. Established in 1979 by William J. Walczak and a local civic organization, the health center began with two physicians in the basement of an old library and a goal…
The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Based on the knowledge that increasing the number of people being tested for HIV can lead to decreased transmission, a campaign to increase testing called “Get Tested Coachella Valley” was…
Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a mobile medical van in a church parking lot. BNHC is a nonprofit, multicultural, federally qualified community health center. BNHC is also designated as a Qualified Low-Income Community Business (as…