Note: This story was produced as part of a joint editorial initiative between NACHC and Direct Relief. By Olivia Lewis, Writer, Direct Relief DETROIT, Mich. — Jessica Jackson’s days are filled with back-to-back appointments at the Detroit-based Community Health and Social Services Center, Inc., known as CHASS. The certified nurse midwife works with expecting and …
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Hospitality and Dignity: Native Health Services’ Indigenous Care
Indigenous values are expressed in everything NATIVE HEALTH offers, from Virtual Talking Circles to a Traditional Garden and Cultural Group Connections for in-home visits.
Challenging Community Health Centers to Join in “Raising the Bar”
This framework offers guiding principles, roles, and action-steps to help the health care sector achieve the goal of increasing equity.
Planning and Partnerships for COVID-19 Vaccination: One Community Health
The vaccination effort has included pop-up vaccine events at concerts in the park, county fair events with health departments, outreach immunization clinics in multiple Native American villages, and visits a tiny remote community in Hood River.
A Place to Breathe and Heal at Health Centers
A new stunning 86-minute documentary film explores the universality of trauma and resilience through the eyes of immigrant and refugee health care practitioners and patients and features a Community Health Center in Lowell, MA
We Must Continue to Prioritize Vaccine Equity Against COVID
At Neighborhood Health — located in northern Virginia — our goal from the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic has been vaccine equity.