Kaua‘i will have its moment to celebrate community health centers along with the rest of the nation Aug. 5 to Aug. 11. According to a proclamation received by representatives of Ho‘ola Lahui, community health centers are nonprofit, community-owned and operated
Kaua‘i will have its moment to celebrate community health centers along with the rest of the nation Aug. 5 to Aug. 11.
According to a proclamation received by representatives of Ho‘ola Lahui, community health centers are nonprofit, community-owned and operated health care providers serving Native Hawaiians, immigrants, homeless, uninsured, and otherwise medically underserved people on Kaua‘i.
Community health centers expand access to primary health care for all people and contain health care costs by fostering prevention and integrating the delivery of primary care with outreach, patient education, translation and other enabling services for people with socio-economic and cultural barriers to care, the proclamation continues.
High quality health care and excellent care management for patients with chronic diseases and co-occurring conditions are another benefit of community health centers.
Through these services, community health centers empower communities to address unmet health needs, reduce health disparities, address preventable deaths, costly disabilities and communicable diseases.
The Ho‘ola Lahui Hawai‘i section 330 Community Health Center has sites in Lihu‘e, Waimea and Kapa‘a, serving all people in the community regardless of income or ethnicity.
Baptiste, through the proclamation, invites all residents to become more familiar with the work and celebrate the achievements by the staff of Kaua‘i’s community health centers during the national celebration in August.
For more information on the work of Ho‘ola Lahui, visit its Web site at www.hoolalahui.org.
