Columbia Road Health Services
WISH LIST: $120: a well-child examination, including vaccinations and blood work for a baby living below the poverty line; $240: health care for an uninsured individual for 1 year; $960: a half-day of services at CRHS
Columbia Road Health Services takes a comprehensive approach to health and healing, offering patients high-quality healthcare, mental health counseling, social services like assistance in obtaining child support or referrals to parenting classes, and even dental care. Primary and preventive care (school physicals, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings), treatment and management of chronic health problems (asthma, diabetes), free and low-cost medications and lab services, along with counseling and social services, offer hope for a lifetime of good health. And clients are among the neediest in DC: struggling families, immigrants, the elderly, the homeless, the mentally ill. Most are low-income, uninsured or underinsured; two-thirds are poor. Clients find a culturally sensitive staff that speaks English, Spanish, and Amharic; they find doctors, a social worker and case managers, and even a counseling staff. The clinic opened in 1979 in a two-bedroom apartment. It has now grown into a two-story facility that last year provided 23,000 medical, counseling, and social services visits to nearly 5,000 patients. Compassion helped found CRHS; your compassion can help it meet the growing need.
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