NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH
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Mission Statement
Neighborcare Health provides medical, dental, and behavioral health care to more than 75,000 people across Seattle and Vashon Island. We focus on serving vulnerable and low-income individuals throughout our community, and never turn anyone away because they can’t pay. Our ultimate goal is 100% access to quality healthcare and to eliminate health disparities based on income, race, ethnicity, gender, age or sexual identity. Mission Statement Neighborcare’s mission is to provide comprehensive healthcare to families and individuals with difficulty accessing care; respond with sensitivity to the needs of our culturally diverse patients; and advocate and work with others to improve the overall health status of the communities we serve.
About This Cause
Neighborcare Health Programs We operate Medical Clinics in neighborhoods facing the greatest health disparities and healthcare access barriers to provide preventive/early intervention/acute/chronic care, family planning/midwifery/OB, newborn/pediatrics/well-child/adolescent/geriatric medicine, nutrition counseling, health education and mental health counseling. Medical teams work together with patients to address long-term wellness and connect them to services as needed. Neighborcare’s Dental Clinics address the #1 health care access problem locally and nationally: affordable dental care. Our dental teams provide children and adults ongoing preventive care to help them achieve their best oral health, as well as emergency services to alleviate pain. Our Specialty Programs include: School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) to provide injury and acute care, sports physicals, health assessments, reproductive health, immunizations, health education, crisis intervention/mental health, laboratory testing and dispense common medications. A national leader in SBHC care and Washington’s largest provider of this service, all staff are trained to work with youth and culturally diverse populations. Services for the Homeless are tailored to homeless families, unaccompanied youth and chronically homeless adults, both on the streets and transitioning to stable housing. Our goal is to meet patients where they are, meet their primary care needs and support them in securing and maintaining stable housing. Recent Successes and Current Challenges: For 50 years, Neighborcare Health has held firm to the belief that access to quality health care is a fundamental right. When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, millions of Americans were granted access to low-cost insurance. Thanks to the ACA, Neighborcare Health’s eligibility team was able to connect thousands of patients to health coverage. For some, it was the first time they had ever had health insurance. As a result, Neighborcare Health saw a significant increase in the number of patients we served, growing from seeing nearly 50,000 patients in 2012 to more than 75,000 in 2017. We are enormously proud of this huge leap in advancing our mission and ensuring that tens of thousands more of our neighbors have access to health care. Although the scope of our services, the number patients served and the sophistication of our clinics has grown and evolved beyond the original vision of our founders, we know our work is not done. Many of our most vulnerable neighbors still experience barriers to accessing health care services in our community. The most current data tells us there are still 217,000 low income people not yet served by a health center in King County, and 65,000 in Seattle alone. Neighborcare Health is working hard to connect with low-income individuals still without access to care. We have developed strategies focused on meeting patients where they are in their journey, to welcome them into health care homes. Our initiatives include: - Opening a contact center to engage low-income people not yet served by a health center. - Filling our existing centers to capacity, and ensuring that clinics are operating efficiently. - Identifying opportunities to open health care centers in low-income housing. Partnering with other health service providers, such as our new affiliation with Valley Cities, to share our collective expertise and expand our presence. Dedicating resources to the ongoing analysis of current and projected trends in low-income families and individuals, to better anticipate where and when to grow. We know it in 2018 as well as we did in 1968: access to quality health care is a fundamental right. Regardless of what occurs on the national stage, we will continue to ensure that all of our low-income neighbors are able to receive the quality care they need and deserve.