Focus On United Way: Well Child Clinic Offers Parental Support
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the various agencies that receive funds from United Way. The remaining agencies will be periodically highlighted leading up to the annual United Way fund drive. Information on each agency will include: What and how services are provided, who receives the services, the people associated with the agency and funding received from United Way.
The Well Child Clinic opened in 1981 to help families who have trouble paying for well-baby routine care.
The goal of the clinic is to provide families with routine preventive health services needed to keep babies and children healthy, happy and prepared to succeed as they approach school age. Because of financial constraints, these serves might not otherwise be available. The Well Child Clinic often is used as a "safety net" for preventive health care.
The clinic, at 1000 Medpark Drive, Suite B, Warsaw, is under the medical direction of Dr. William Remington. The clinic depends on its five staff members: One clerical, two registered nurses and two nurse practitioners (one is bilingual) to provide free physicals, lead and hemoglobin screenings, hearing and vision screenings, educational materials and immunizations.
As a United Way agency, the clinic currently receives all their funding from the United Way allocations benefiting Kosciusko County children.
In 2005, the clinic held 511 appointments for children, ages approximately 2 through 13, of lower income families. Families at 185 percent of the poverty level qualify and any child on Medicaid or WIC automatically qualifies. A typical recipient family is one whose income is too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford medical insurance or immigrant families whose status does not allow them to qualify for Medicaid.
The average length of an appointment is one hour. One of the major thrusts of the clinic is education - staff members try to take whatever time is necessary to answer all parents' questions. The clinic also conducts thorough testing and screenings during appointments, keeping in mind that a family may be in a hurry, and lower-income families may have been forced to settle for less than the best. Every effort is made to encourage the parents to be the best possible.
Referrals readily are made for families with special problems or special needs that might be better handled by their own doctor or another agency. Clinics are held Thursdays by appointment only.
The greatest concern of the Well Child Clinic is they are commonly confused with the Kosciusko County Health Department Immunization Clinic. They are housed in the same office, but offer different services.
For more information, call 574-267-7028, leave a message at 574-269-5152 or go to [email protected] [[In-content Ad]]
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the various agencies that receive funds from United Way. The remaining agencies will be periodically highlighted leading up to the annual United Way fund drive. Information on each agency will include: What and how services are provided, who receives the services, the people associated with the agency and funding received from United Way.
The Well Child Clinic opened in 1981 to help families who have trouble paying for well-baby routine care.
The goal of the clinic is to provide families with routine preventive health services needed to keep babies and children healthy, happy and prepared to succeed as they approach school age. Because of financial constraints, these serves might not otherwise be available. The Well Child Clinic often is used as a "safety net" for preventive health care.
The clinic, at 1000 Medpark Drive, Suite B, Warsaw, is under the medical direction of Dr. William Remington. The clinic depends on its five staff members: One clerical, two registered nurses and two nurse practitioners (one is bilingual) to provide free physicals, lead and hemoglobin screenings, hearing and vision screenings, educational materials and immunizations.
As a United Way agency, the clinic currently receives all their funding from the United Way allocations benefiting Kosciusko County children.
In 2005, the clinic held 511 appointments for children, ages approximately 2 through 13, of lower income families. Families at 185 percent of the poverty level qualify and any child on Medicaid or WIC automatically qualifies. A typical recipient family is one whose income is too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford medical insurance or immigrant families whose status does not allow them to qualify for Medicaid.
The average length of an appointment is one hour. One of the major thrusts of the clinic is education - staff members try to take whatever time is necessary to answer all parents' questions. The clinic also conducts thorough testing and screenings during appointments, keeping in mind that a family may be in a hurry, and lower-income families may have been forced to settle for less than the best. Every effort is made to encourage the parents to be the best possible.
Referrals readily are made for families with special problems or special needs that might be better handled by their own doctor or another agency. Clinics are held Thursdays by appointment only.
The greatest concern of the Well Child Clinic is they are commonly confused with the Kosciusko County Health Department Immunization Clinic. They are housed in the same office, but offer different services.
For more information, call 574-267-7028, leave a message at 574-269-5152 or go to [email protected] [[In-content Ad]]