Forty-four years ago, a group of Southwest side residents in Indianapolis had a GREAT idea. They would organize to bring about something that hadn’t been done before in their neighborhood: the availability of affordable, quality health care for people who needed it, but didn’t have access to it. To reach their dream, they tirelessly hosted endless fundraiser rummage [...]
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Weight loss hopes & dreams: Is it better to be thin or fit?
Post written by Dr. Rick Reifenberg, MD When it comes to heart health, is it better to be thin or fit? The short answer, of course, is that it is best to be both at a healthy weight and fit. But if you could only be one, which would be better? The answer from this [...]
For the Homeless, Where Does Hope Come From?
Post written by Toscha Wilkins. Click here to learn more about our entire blog team. In our everyday contact with homeless clients, we realize that the services we offer might be the last shred of hope that they have. Most of our clients have exhausted both their formal and informal support networks, to the point [...]
Kids Count 2012 – 2 Takeaways
The timing couldn’t be more perfect to wrap up our month-long focus on GIVE A CARE ABOUT KIDS! The just-released Kids Count Data Book, complied by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, reports that Indiana’s child poverty rate rose to 22 percent in 2010. Think about that: One in five children in our state is living [...]
Car Seat Clinic helps Burmese in the Barrington Neighborhood
On July 19, 2012, Better Indy Babies/Healthy Families held a car seat clinic at the Barrington Health & Dental Center (BHC) to distribute much needed infant car seats to some of our Burmese families. Over the past couple years, BHC has seen an influx of Burmese patients and we are grateful to have Swhe Bualteng [...]
Our CEO Transition: Jimmy Brown & Booker Thomas Conversation
As HealthNet faces a transition period, our current President & CEO – Booker Thomas – and our incoming President & CEO – Jimmy Brown – sat down together to talk about the past, present, and future of the organization. Listen in to hear what Jimmy’s vision is for the future, what words of advice Booker [...]
We’re in this Together. The feeling you get when walking through our doors!
post written by Laura Jay-Ballinger. To meet the rest of our blog team, click here! As eluded to in my bio, I started as a student interning at HealthNet in 2009. It was a brief stint- roughly two months- in which I jumped head first into the work and community of caregivers. I was terrified! [...]
From Corrections to a Safe Place
post written by staff blogger, Bhumi Bhavsar. Get to know more about our blog team here. Having worked with the corrections, work release, addictions, and Veterans populations, I had never heard of HealthNet prior to obtaining my call for an interview for a position I had applied for via IU Health’s website. I dealt with [...]
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