Give A Care Indy » health centers program http://blog.indyhealthnet.org Support in Health Care & Social Services Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Our Petition Drive was a success! Make that voice even stronger. http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/petition-drive-success-voice-stronger?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=petition-drive-success-voice-stronger http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/petition-drive-success-voice-stronger#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 13:30:17 +0000 giveacareindy http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/?p=2410 Over the past six weeks, staff at each of our health centers, have been working hard at a petition drive to gain as many signatures of support from staff, patients and the community for the Health Center Program. It is vital to maintain and very important to try and increase the amount of federal funding for community health centers throughout the United States. The petition was also in support of no cuts in Medicaid funding, a resource that covers many of our patients!

We collected 3,287 petition signatures!

And now, we are asking for you to help our voices become even stronger! These petitions are being delivered to a few legislators to encourage them to take notice and educate themselves on a topic of need and interest to many when it comes to community health centers!!

To make the petition drive fun for staff and – to provide an incentive for them to go the extra mile to get signatures of support – the team with the most signatures won a pizza party for their entire Health Center staff! That winning team was….drum roll please….

Southwest Health & Dental Center!!!

So now it is YOUR turn… GET UP, GET OUT, AND VOTE!! The primary election is important and a way for you to have a voice and make yourself heard!! Encourage your co-workers to vote, or your friends, or family….maybe your employer would consider hosting a pizza party if 100% of staff voted on May 8th? Never hurts to ask!

And, who doesn’t like a free lunch simply for doing something good?

Wondering – WHERE EXACTLY DO I GO TO VOTE?
Click here to find the polling place nearest you.

P.S. If you don’t vote, then this guy may yell at you…

Shout

flickr photo by Adam Merton

]]> http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/petition-drive-success-voice-stronger/feed 0 CALL TO ACTION!! Time to talk to our Senators! http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/call-to-action-time-to-talk-to-our-senators?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=call-to-action-time-to-talk-to-our-senators http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/call-to-action-time-to-talk-to-our-senators#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:21:03 +0000 giveacareindy http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/?p=1027 Almost a month ago, we asked you to contact your U.S. Representative to submit a programmatic request supporting the Community Health Centers Program.

Today, we’re in the midst of the same process, only we are switching to the other side of Capitol Hill.  The deadline for SENATORS to submit a programmatic request is THIS FRIDAY, June 10th.  But, there is also an easier way for Indiana Senators Lugar and Coats to show support without submitting a request.

photo by Ewan McGregor

Senator Stabenow (D-MI) and Senator Boozman (R-AR) worked together to come up with a document just like their House counterparts Bilirakis (R-FL) and Pallone (D-NJ) did a couple weeks ago.  A ‘Dear Colleague’ letter is available for Senators to co-sign by the end of the business day tomorrow!!

Ideally, full Indiana support for the Health Centers Program would be for Sen. Lugar and Sen. Coats to co-sign the Stabenow-Boozman letter AND submit their own programmatic requests.

HealthNet and other Indiana community health centers have always shown great numbers for advocacy, and these next few weeks are critical for ramping up efforts for our FY2012 funding, particularly after the dramatic cuts we received earlier this year.  Call, email, and fax a letter to each of these Senators to let them know how many patients (voters) they will be helping by showing support for our Health Centers Program!

In order to sign on to the ‘Dear Colleague’ letter, Republican Senators can contact Kathee Facchiano in Sen. Boozman’s office at 202-224-4843 and Democrat Senators may contact Alex Sheff in Sen. Stabenow’s office at 202-224-4822.

Take action today, and help your health center’s patients receive great care while also saving the state health care system money!!

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