Mother’s Day is right around the corner! Kay Johnson, HealthNet staff member, shares her personal story on the importance of reminding the ones you love to take care of themselves. Whether it is a gentle push or a ‘GET YOUR BUTT TO THE DOCTOR!’, Kay stresses the urgency to love the ones nearest to you. [...]
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Funding for Community Health Centers in the state of Indiana
Last week, several HealthNet staff members attended the Indiana Primary Health Care Association (IPHCA) Legislative Day to learn more about advocacy efforts needed to continue state funding for community health centers (CHC). The present day landscape of CHCs in the state of Indiana presents a need for continued funding. Community health centers are a major [...]
Three ways to keep advocating for FQHC funding, even in the face of FY2011 cuts!
Community Health Center funding was cut by $600 million dollars when legislators finally came to an agreement on the federal budget last week. [T]his major reduction will — in this year alone — negate the ability to provide basic health care services to over 5 million of our most vulnerable Americans, and will seriously undermine [...]
Meet Maggie, HealthNet’s Mammography Technologist!
Meet Maggie, our fun and outgoing Radiological and Mammography Technologist! Many people ask her, “Is this what you do ALL day?” But to Maggie, it is more than a job that she HAS to do all day. Before Maggie was born, her maternal grandmother passed away from breast cancer. It was during the late 1960s [...]
County Health Rankings! Marion County is NOT very healthy…
The County Health Rankings report was just released by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This report ranks each county in each state in overall health calculated by factors such as individual health behaviors, education and jobs, quality of health care, and environment. This report is a great [...]
Keep Indy A Healthy Place to Live – Let Your Voice Be Heard!
At HealthNet, we see first-hand the real effects of the current economic environment. Each day, calls come in from middle-class people — once employed and insured — who now find themselves in a situation they never dreamed they would be in: unemployed and uninsured. For many, their unemployment benefits have been exhausted as well as [...]
House calls to the Homeless?
It is often hard for the homeless to find time to make a doctor’s appointment. Whether it has to do with not KNOWING where to go, putting other things before health care, or being unable to transport yourself there like many homeless who may live in supportive housing many of the homeless do not have [...]
What can you do to fight Breast Cancer?
You can make a difference for an Indianapolis woman at risk for breast cancer. According to BreastCancer.org, about 1 in 8 women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. Mammography is a simple screening that is vital to the early detection of breast cancer, but low-income women [...]
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