Outreach Services
Swope Health Services provides a full array of services for ALL of our patients' health care needs.
At Swope Health Central, we are a "One-Stop Shop," meeting the following health care needs all under one roof:
Health Care for the Homeless
Program Goal:
To provide primary healthcare to homeless persons.
Eligibility:
- Verification that a client's housing situation fits one of four categories:
- Lives on the streets or in a shelter.
- Lives with a family member or friend due to an emergency situation.
- Is incarcerated or have just been released without any stable home plan.
- Has been homeless before entering a drug and alcohol treatment center and will be going to a shelter or transitional living program after completion.
Services Provided:
- Health Care
- Prescriptions
- Dental
- Optometry
- Case management
- Therapy
- Substance Abuse
- HIV Care (Ryan White)
- HIV Testing
| Contact Information: |
Outreach Front Desk, ext. 6344 |
| Location: |
Building B, Outreach Department,
Swope Health Central |
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Reach 2010 KC-CDC Grant
Program Goal:
To decrease disease with the focus on health promotion and prevention of disease and disability through early detection.
Eligibility:
Minority
Services Provided:
- Literature and information on health issues
- Help access medical services at Swope Health Services
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HIV Care (Ryan White)
Program Goal:
To provide primary health care and case management services to HIV+ patients.
Eligibility:
- HIV+
- Enrolled in the KC's Ryan White Program
Services Provided:
- Health Care
- Prescriptions
- Dental
- Optometry
- Case management
- Therapy
- Substance Abuse
| Contact Information: |
Robyn Johnson, ext. 4123
Email: rjjohnson@swopecommunity.org |
| Location: |
Building B, Outreach Department,
Swope Health Central |
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W.I.C. (Women, Infants and Children) Program
Program Goal:
The Women, Infants and Children Special Supplemental Nutrition Program helps families learn about making healthy food choices, breastfeeding and the importance of physical activity. The WIC program is also good at connecting families to community agencies and organizations that can help meet their needs.
Swope Health Services WIC program serves over 2,500 persons monthly. WIC provides at no cost nutritious foods to pregnant, breast-feeding and postpartum women as well as infants and children up to age 5. A registered dietitian and a board certified lactation counselor are on staff to provide nutrition counseling and breastfeeding support, as well as limited breastfeeding supplies and electric pumps. Participants meet certain income guidelines.
Eligible women and children receive vouchers for fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads, rice, eggs and a variety of other healthy foods. For infants who are not breastfed, WIC provides some but not all the iron-fortified formula needed monthly. At 6 months of age infants receive cereal, fruits and vegetables.
Eligibility:
- Income guidelines (185% of the poverty level and below)
- Nutritional risk factors (determined by a Nutritionist)
Services Provided:
- Food vouchers
- Formula vouchers
- Nutrition counseling
- Breast-feeding education
| Contact Information: |
Ernestine Persley, WIC Program Supervisor,
922-7645 ext. 6345 |
| Location: |
Building A, W.I.C. Department, 1st floor,
Swope Health Central |
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Women & Minority Health Care
Program Goal:
To provide health insurance to indigent women, men, children and custodian fathers.
Eligibility:
- Women who are pregnant and unemployed or with wages under the federal guidelines.
- Custodial fathers who are unemployed or making wages under the federal guidelines.
- Families with children and with parents unemployed.
- Disabled individuals.
Services Provided:
- MC+/Medicaid Information and Applications.
- Permanent Medicaid (beyond the 45 days of temporary Medicaid).
- Follow up on denials.
| Contact Information: |
Dorothy Fonza, Coordinator, ext. 4044
Email: dfonza@swopehealth.org |
| Location: |
Building B, Outreach Department,
Swope Health Central |
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Project Your Choice: SAMHSA
Program Goal:
- Assist clients to obtain and maintain housing using a "housing first" model
- Support clients in eliminating or reducing substance use
- Assist clients in accessing community and mainstream resources
- Assist clients to obtain employment or benefits
Eligibility:
- Chronically homeless individuals (as defined by HUD)
- Current or recent substance abuse
Services Provided:
- Intensive case management
- Referral to residential or outpatient drug and alcohol treatment programs
- Referral to counseling or other Behavioral Health services
- Referral for employment assistance
- Assistance obtaining housing
- Peer support
- Drug and alcohol free social activities
- Assistance obtaining benefits/entitlements
- Assistance accessing community and mainstream resources
| Contact Information: |
Marilyn Wherry, Program Coordinator, ext. 6111
Email address: mwherry@swopehealth.org |
| Location: |
Outreach Department,
Swope Health Central |
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Swope Health Services is a member company of Swope Community Enterprises, which helps develop self-empowered, healthy people in healthy communities through health care, community development, and community and economic development planning.