Primary Health Care

Community Health center cluster our Primary Care clinics provide medical, dental, and mental Health services to uninsured and under served patients in central Iowa, regardless of their ability to pay. Patient visits for the fiscal year totaled 148,445.

Primary Health Care's hiv program expanded in january 2013. It provides comprehensive Primary medical, dental, mental Health, and nurse Care management services to patients with hiv disease. Services also include testing, supportive services such as housing and case management, counseling, and referrals. These programs served hundreds of patients with hiv during the year, and thousand at risk for contracting the disease. Funding comes from hrsa's rya white parts b and c, hud's hopwa program, the cdc, and Iowa department of public Health.

The teaching Health center graduate medical education program supports the expansion of Primary Care medical residency training in community-based ambulatory settings whereby these graduates are likely to serve underserved communities.