The Community of Rifle, Colorado

Awesome video of our neighbor down-valley Rifle, Colorado.In recent years the citizens and City staff have done an amazing job building community and revitalizing town.

MFHC – Eagle location, coming soon.

SOURCE: Mountain Family Health Centers

 

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Announces New Healthcare Access Point Award for Eagle County, Colorado. 

On November 7, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced $150 million in awards to support new community health center access points across the country. Eagle County, Colorado, received one of the awards, under the auspices of Mountain Family Health Centers (MFHC). MFHC, working in partnership with Eagle County, Vail Valley Medical Center, the Eagle Care Clinic, and countless key community partners, will receive $650,000 annually to expand access to comprehensive primary health care in Eagle County.

“Our mission is to provide high quality, integrated primary, behavioral, and dental health care in the communities we serve, with special consideration for the medically underserved, regardless of ability to pay,” said MFHC CEO Ross Brooks. “This award will enable Eagle County residents to obtain the high quality, affordable health care we all desire.” 

MFHC has 120 days to implement the new health care access point, which will be located in the current Eagle Care Clinic location at 320 Beard Creek Road, Edwards, CO, 81632. MFHC’s Board of Directors is committed to bringing its organizational strength and comprehensive array of culturally and linguistically-competent services to Eagle County, with a service plan designed to address unique needs, improve health status and decrease target population health disparities. When fully operational, the MFHC Eagle Care team will serve more than 3,500 patients each year.

“The Vail Valley Medical Center team has worked diligently for two decades to create an important health resource in the Eagle Care Clinic and I am very pleased that the work we started will continue to grow under Mountain Family Health Centers,” said Doris Kirchner, President and CEO of Vail Valley Medical Center. “Patients will see added services including dental and mental health care and greater access to financial assistance.” 

“This outstanding award amount is due to the hard work of many partners over many years,” said Eagle County Commissioner Sara Fisher. “We’ve made access to health care a priority and we know our community – and most importantly our community’s health – will benefit from this resource.” 

For additional information, contact MFHC CEO Ross Brooks at 970-928-1609 or rbrooks@mountainfamily.org.

For full Press Release, CLICK HERE.

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Glenwood Moms for Moms Giving Back

‘tis the season & Glenwood Moms for Moms is giving back...

Join us this holiday season as we come together as the strong community of Moms that we are, to help out those in need. We have two organizations that we will helping this year:

Advocate Safehouse Project & Cakes Helping Kids

Both organizations will be speaking at our November Meet & Mingle to share their stories & at our December Meet & Mingle we will prepare all the packages.

Please email me or call 719.207.3653 if you have any questions or would like to meet up to donate items-- we will soon have drop off locations in town too. 

Join us at www.GlenwoodMomsforMoms.com today!

Advocate Safehouse Project

• A local non-profit  that strives to 'promote healthy relationships free from violence through education, advocacy, empowerment and safehousing.'
• Glenwood Moms for Moms will be putting together gift bags for the women & their children.  
• Many women who go into the safehouse used to pamper themselves and wish they could get back to that by painting their nails, wearing makeup, perfume and really just pampering themselves. 
• Children & Adolescents  are also part of this program so with our gift bags we can include toys or books (these items can be gently used)
• In addition to the women & children the Safehouse is continually in need of items that are necessary to maintain a household such as laundry soap, fabric softener, dish soap, paper towels, toilet paper, aluminum foil and saran wrap, tupperware, cleaning supplies.

Cakes Helping Kids

• Join Mom Member Janille Hudson & her family in their vision to help kids in need. They have chosen to help Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, this holiday season by sending them medical play dolls to give back to a program that has helped their family in the past.  
• Their goal is to be able to provide 100 or more dolls for Primary Children's and they will need our help to do this. The dolls are very simple to sew and can be made very inexpensively & kids LOVE stuffing them!! 
• You can find the pattern & read more about Cakes Helping Kids by CLICKING HERE . 
• These dolls can be dropped of at 3112 Hager Lane or at any our drop off points (to be announced)!
• If you have any questions for this project you can contact Janille at  801-702-7600.