Programs and Services:

Primary Clinic Hours of Operation: 8am - 7pm Mondays - Fridays, 9am - 1pm Saturdays

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Comprehensive Primary Heath Care Services include:

• Family Practice Medicine
• Family Nurse Practitioner
• Treatment for Injuries
• Treatment for Illnesses
• Chronic illness Care
• Follow-up care
• Care Coordination, Referrals, and Management
• Physical Examinations (including EPSDT and HealthPass)
• Women's Health Exams
• Family Planning Services
• STD Screening and Treatment
• Immunizations
• Health Assessments
• Health Screenings
• Health Education and Counseling
• Substance Abuse Counseling

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Other Programs:

HHC also has additional programs available to assist low income individuals with purchasing medications, medical equipment and healthy nutritious foods if they are diabetic, suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure) and/or have high cholesterol contributing to heart disease. This assistance is funded through generous grants from the Ouida and Doc Hill Foundation and the Hawaii Community Foundation Vierra Fund.

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Women's Health:

Programs funded by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and the Breast & Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP), provide opportunities for women with little or no insurance to receive early screenings for breast and cervical cancer. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation funds breast screenings, mammograms and biopsies for uninsured women under age 49.
The BCCCP is supported by the National Center for Disease Control. It is designed to reach as many women as possible between ages 50-64 in communities where certain populations are found to have higher cancer death rates than the norm. Women may now also receive free screenings for diabetes, high blood pressure, and skin cancer, a urinalysis, and heart, lung, stomach, abdominal and thyroid checks. If any follow-up treatment is required, Med-QUEST is available for women with incomes up to 250% of the Federal Poverty Level.

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Quality Care...

We are proud to announce that the Hamakua Health Center has been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Primary Health Care's Health Disparities Collaborative for Diabetes Management. Visit www.healthdisparities.net to learn more about this project. We'll keep you informed of our progress!

What are health disparities?

A major goal in our country is to eliminate health disparities for different minority populations, poor people, and in some cases for women. Disparities lead to differences in deaths from heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes, as the four top killers, as well as other illnesses. To eliminate health disparities and improve functional and clinical outcomes, health care organizations must change the way they deliver care. The Health Disparities Collaboratives call for such a change -- a transformation in the delivery of care. The transformation affects how:

• Providers such as doctors, dentists, social workers, and nurses deliver care;
• Patients understand and participate in managing their own care; and
• Communities learn to strengthen the provider-patient partnership.

The Health Disparities Collaboratives strive to achieve excellence in practice through the following goals:

Diabetes

Diabetes is one of the six conditions singled out by former President Clinton for
his Health Disparities Initiative, and was chosen as the first clinical program to be addressed by BPHC's Health Status and Performance Initiative.

Measures

Centers participating in this Collaborative agree to adopt shared national measures, as well as local measures based on proven guidelines.
Measures are aligned with American Diabetes Association, external reporting requirements such as HEDIS, or other expert guidelines and include such issues as cardiac indicators, foot care, retinal indicators, renal measures, and dental measures. One important shared national measure of every Health Disparities Collaborative is "patient self-management", since supporting self-care is an integral part of the chronic care model.

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