Program areas at YNHS
Primary care medical and behavioral Health Services: ynhs provided primary care Services to nearly 22,000 children, adults, and seniors in 2023, through over 150,000 medical, dental, behavioral Health, wic, and social service visits. Agency staff focused on primary and preventive care that lowers the overall potential cost of care and reduces the risk of chronic and long-term disease. 65% of primary care patients had incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level ($30,000 for a family of 4), and over 4,300 individuals were uninsured, low-income residents of Yakima county.
Dental Services: ynhs staff provided 19,234 dental visits to low-income and underserved residents of Yakima county in 2023, mostly low-income adults who were uninsured or on medicaid. Ynhs provides comprehensive dental care out of four locations throughout Yakima county, increasing access for uninsured and medicaid residents who have gone without dental care for many years. Last year, one in four adults seen by ynhs dental providers were uninsured. In addition, ynhs provided 1,977 dental visits to people experiencing homelessness.
Supportive housing: last year, ynhs staff provided permanent supportive housing for 232 individuals in 134 households leaving homelessness and working toward self-sufficiency. In addition, our staff provide medical recuperative care through ten recuperative units for homeless individuals who are ill/injured but not enough for hospital care, and those being hospital discharged and not well enough to return to the streets. 200 people received recuperative care (nursing, behavioral Health, and case management Services) from the medical respite program for a total of 2,222 bed nights. The ynhs medical respite program again serves as the isolation and quarantine program for all of Yakima county, to allow low-income people with communicable conditions such as covid, measles, tuberculosis, and mpox to isolate when they do not have housing or live in crowded or shared housing and are unable to isolate on their own. The medical respite program provided a significant cost savings to the medical community by preventing hospital admissions and re-admissions for homeless individuals. A welcomed addition to the Yakima valley was the "Neighborhood showers" mobile hygiene, a traveling showers program that offers shower facilities for unhoused individuals, along with Health care professionals to engage with people while they wait to take showers and afterwards when they are freshly enjoying coffee, a snack bar, and a fresh new set of clothing. A Health care team met with 493 people, provided 1,915 showers, and connect many of these individuals to medical, dental, behavioral Health, and housing Services as a result of this effective outreach service.
Other clinic operations - various preventive family Health Services targeted at children of low income families.