As a new year approaches, we resolve to do exactly what we did in 2015: improve lives in our city. We hope you will too. Consider that: $25 assists patients with emergency medical needs such as medications, food, shelter or transportation to and from medical offices. $50 helps children ages 6 months through 5 years receive a brand new [...]
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Give the Gift of Hope!
As the holiday season approaches, many of us are busy making lists of last minute ingredients we need to get for Thanksgiving dinner and preparing for the holidays. But imagine if instead of making a list of ingredients for your famous Thanksgiving pie, you were trying to find a way to buy the medicine for [...]
Dealing with Dementia: National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month
Post by Bhumi Bhavsar Did you know that 5.3 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s? In honor of National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, HealthNet Behavioral Health Provider, Bhumi Bhavsar, discusses the importance of caregivers as well as dealing with a family member suffering from dementia. What is Alzheimer’s? Dementia has a group of symptoms: most prominent [...]
Mammogram Myths Debunked!
October has quickly arrived and you are probably starting to see the color pink everywhere in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, a statistic that we hope will decline. Annual mammograms are extremely important, because early detection can save lives. In [...]
Thankful for Gifts from the Heart
The holidays come with donation drives everywhere! Each drive is different…Whether it is an office chili cook-off, a coat drive, or a collection of monetary donations, it is exciting to so many creative groups helping out others during the holiday season. The IU Health Affinity groups had their own idea for a Holiday Helpings drive that, fortunately and gratefully, we [...]
The temperatures may be dropping a bit in Indy.. but your car could still be heating up
Indianapolis weather has been BRUTAL lately. Record temperatures, no rain, a burn ban, and tomorrow the water ban goes into effect. This dry heat and lack of humidity keep temperatures up, and we unfortunately have heard of a couple cases where the heat has caused major harm and even death to children. Just this past [...]
HealthNet friends hold a Holiday Helpings Drive that goes beyond collecting donations…
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 [...]
Just in time for the holidays!! A Holiday Helpings Drive success…
Last month, we were contacted by a HealthNet physician who also works for the Regenstrief Institute. The staff at Regenstrief were in the planning stages of a Holiday Fund drive and wanted to direct the gifts to our patients in need this holiday season. This week we ventured over to collect dozens and dozens of [...]
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! [...]
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