The holidays come with donation drives everywhere! Each drive is different…Whether it is an office bake sale, a canned food drive, or a collection of monetary donations, it is fun to see the creativity of groups in accomplishing the goal of helping out others during the holiday season. The IU Health Women’s and Minority Affinity [...]
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Ending 2011 on an Advocacy High-Note for ALL Community Health Centers!
At a time when health centers are seeing ever increasing demand for their services in rural and urban communities across the country, we are grateful that Congress has responded with this bipartisan bill which begins to address that need! – Tom Van Coverden, President & CEO of NACHC. Congress passed the 2012 Omnibus Appropriations Act! [...]
“Giving a Care and Opening Doors” – HealthNet’s Holiday Wish List
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTZtb40z-fg?hd=1] “Giving a Care” and “Opening Doors” represent the mindset of HealthNet as an organization and our outreach programs in particular. In this video, Benita and Toscha talk about the impact of donation on our clients and patients. Becoming a support person for HealthNet, especially for our Better Indy Babies, Healthy Families, and Homeless [...]
Help others by cleaning out those closets this holiday season!!
Many nonprofit organizations are seeing an influx of needs – especially this holiday season. As the economy still seems to struggle – so do many families and children living in Indianapolis. HealthNet’s outreach programs provide case management and basic necessities to thousands of families each year. This year in particular, we are hoping to meet [...]
What Midwives wish you knew about them
For thousands of years, women have been giving birth with the help of midwives. Every year, more than 300,000 US women partner with midwives to navigate birth, puberty, menopause, and other normal life stages. In celebration of National Midwifery Week, I had a chance to talk with Jill Kocher, one the 24 certified nurse midwives [...]
“Your birth experience is YOURS, I’m here to give you that experience…”
In honor of National Midwifery Week, I got in touch with one of our own Nurse Midwives to get a feel for Indiana’s largest Midwifery program! Yes, you read that right, HealthNet is home to the state’s largest midwifery program. Lisa Glazik has been working for HealthNet for over 6 years. She started out working [...]
Something to Smile About: Free Clinic Takes Bite Out of Dental Access Gap
Wish you could take a bite out of your dental bills? You aren’t alone. In April, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that 33 percent of people surveyed skipped dental care or dental checkups because they couldn’t afford them. Approximately 108 million Americans lack dental insurance, more than twice as many as lack medical insurance. Getting [...]
The End of Fiscal Year 2011 is near… 3 things you can do to start FY2012 off right
We have been seeing the budget talks in Washington going on for basically the entirety of Fiscal Year 2011, which started off with multiple Continuing Resolutions. FY2011 was full of debates on funding cuts, and it doesn’t stop now. The Senate agreed on a stop-gap funding bill yesterday, that if passed by the House will [...]
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