(BPRW) Jessie Trice Community Health System 1 of 2 Florida Health Centers to Receive HRSA Optimizing Virtual Care Award (Q8V) | Press Releases

(BPRW) Jessie Trice Community Health System 1 of 2 Florida Health Centers to Receive HRSA Optimizing Virtual Care (Q8V) Award

(Black PR Wire) On Monday, February 14, 2022, HRSA awarded a total of $54,564,275 in one-time funding to help 29 health centers develop, implement and evaluate innovative evidence-based strategies that:

• Optimize the use of virtual care to increase access and improve clinical quality for underserved communities and vulnerable populations; and
• Can be adapted and scaled across health center program.

The Jessie Trice Community Health System (JTCHS) is committed to cultivating healthy initiatives and serving as a champion of healthcare. JTCHS continues this vision by providing access to care in person and virtually.

“JTCHS is the recipient of nearly $2 million of the HRSA Optimizing Virtual Care award. As 1 of 2 health centers in the state and 1 of 29 health centers nationwide, we will continue our commitment to the communities we serve as we have for the past 54 years,” said Annie NeasmanCEO of JTCHS.

Every year, billions of dollars are lost due to uncoordinated health and social services for underserved populations, including people with mental illness and/or addictions, the homeless, high Medicaid and drug users. others with adverse social determinants of health. Leveraging HRSA Optimizing Virtual Care funding, the Jessie Trice Community Health System Virtual Care Initiative for Urban and Special Needs Communities will implement an enhanced, comprehensive virtual care program with shared-service integration and that includes health information, screening and intervention for the social determinants of health services and care management and coordination to promote better health and social outcomes for patients.

The Jessie Trice Community Health System, Inc (JTCHS) is one of Miami-Dade County’s leading federally qualified community health centers, governed by a remarkably dedicated Board of Directors (51% of whom are service users medical and dental) and a diverse, incredibly talented and dedicated family of suppliers and employees. The 1st federally qualified health center in the state and 5th in the nation, JTCHS is a Florida 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that has served Miami-Dade County since 1967. JTCHS served its first patients in from a trailer. Today, fifty-four (54) years after its founding, JTCHS owns and operates eleven (11 comprehensive primary care centers, a 40-bed women’s residential addiction center located in one (1) university and forty (40 ) JTCHS schools know and specialize in holistic health, offering a myriad of services to improve community health, including but not limited to: dentistry, family medicine, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, behavioral health, transportation , healthy start, obstetrics and gynecology care, school health, community health promotions, health and wellness center, pediatrics and attendant services. For more information about the Jessie Trice Community Health System, call 305-805-1700 or visit jtchs.org.

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