By: Beau Boughamer
Here’s a health center news story that popped up over the holiday weekend. We hope your holidays have been happy thus far… best wishes for a fantastic 2010.
The Colorado Springs Gazette included a piece on Peak Vista Community Health Centers in a holiday series on local good works.
Jennifer [, a health center patient, and her husband] went to Peak Vista’s Family Health Center at Fountain. Who they ran into were folks like them: Hard-working people who fall through the cracks of insurance coverage.
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“They really go out of the way. They are quick getting us in and taking care of us. It is almost like a family there; they know us by the sound of our voice.”
Peak Vista is one of 14 area charities receiving grants from The Gazette-El Pomar Foundation Empty Stocking Fund.
“They took care of me. My daughter was a high-risk pregnancy. I had routine ultrasounds,” [Jennifer] said.
When she had a breast cancer scare during this pregnancy, she wasn’t expecting a call from her doctor the morning of the biopsy. “She called me at home and wished me good luck,” Jennifer said.
That biopsy came back normal.