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We hope if you were in Denver this weekend that you got to experience Denver Pride! Check out STRIDE Community Health Center's pictures from the weekend below. #PrideMonth #STRIDEatPride
We celebrated Jessica Sanchez today for her 20-year anniversary at CCHN - wow! Thank you, Jessica, for twenty years of innovation, dedication, humor, and fabulous fashion. Here’s to another twenty!
Did you know that on average, men live about five years less than women? Part of that might be because men make half as many physician visits for prevention as women. Learn more at the link below for #MensHealthWeek, and make sure to wear blue on Friday for #WearBlueDay!
Today is the start of Men's Health Week! One easy thing you can do to support men's health? This Friday, June 14, plan to wear blue! Wear Blue Day raises awareness and money for education about men's health. Learn more in the link below! #wearblueday #ShowUsYourBlue #menshealthweek
“'It’s important for all individuals to have access to birth control and preventive health care,' says Family Nurse Practitioner Jenny Lang, who serves as Mountain Family’s Director of Title X Programs and Site Medical Director for the Edwards and Glenwood Springs health centers. 'A planned pregnancy provides the mother, child, and family with the most optimal health possible and supports to provide the child with the best start.'” #familyplanning #CoCHCs #valueCHCs
Mountain Family Offers Affordable Contraception, Family Planning, and STI Care at New Location
By Garry Schalla, Development Director Mountain Family Health Centers wants to reach residents in EagleCongratulations to our partner Ingrid Johnson at the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence for receiving the Nightingale Award. As you can see from the original post, this recognition is very much deserved!Congratulations to Ingrid Johnson, DNP, MPP, RN for receiving the Colorado Nightingale Award in May! Dr. Johnson was nominated in the category of innovation as a non-traditional nurse role (administration, educator, or researcher). Dr. Johnson designed an innovative model to ensure rural and underserved citizens of Colorado have access to a provider through the “Grow-Your-Own APRN Fellowship.” The innovative model builds an empowered APRN primary care workforce and pipeline by recruiting and developing nurses who already live, work, and are vested in the success of their community. The model significantly reduces financial and continuity-of-care costs related to recruiting and turnover of providers that have no interest in living long-term in rural areas and often leave after loan-forgiveness obligations are met.
The Grow-Your-Own model includes a variety of strategies where Dr. Johnson personally recruited rural BSN nurses to return to school, provided financial support, one-on-one individualized coaching and leadership support to successfully graduate and transition to practice as a rural primary care APRN. Dr. Johnson has received over 4 million dollars with local and federal funding to continue building the workforce and supported 110 new APRNs in some of the most rural and underserved areas of Colorado. Her program has received national recognition from her publication in Nursing Administration Quarterly to her presentations at a variety of conferences.
Jesse Smith, FNP from Burlington, CO wrote in a nomination letter, ‘I met Ingrid… when she came to Cheyenne Wells to talk to me about returning to school… I believe that the personalized coaching support from Ingrid and the financial support from the fellowship program was instrumental in my ability to achieve my goal… I am now a provider in Burlington and intend to serve and provide the continuity the people of this community deserve for years to come.”
Make sure to contact your members of Congress and ask them to cosponsor legislation continuing federal funding for Community Health Centers, the National Health Service Corps, and Teaching Health Centers!
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Apply Now Apply now through June 27, 7:30 p.m. ETOur May Newsletter is out! It's been an exciting couple of months with the NACHC Policy and Issues Forum in Washington, D.C. in March (check out some of the pictures below!), the end of Colorado's 2019 legislative session, and more. You can read the May Newsletter by clicking here: bit.ly/2Mkd6JO
Our office is closed today in honor of Memorial Day. Today, we honor and remember those who lost their lives defending our country and our freedoms. To learn more about Memorial Day, please visit www.military.com/memorial-day.