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At Mount Carmel, accomplishing our mission means providing healthcare not only to the
patients at our central Ohio hospitals and health centers, but also to the host
of underserved members of our community who have limited access to basic health
services and little or no ability to pay for them.
Mount Carmel's Community
Outreach Program is a department that extends our reach into the community and
helps provide free health services to those in need. Among the services the program
provides are physical exams, diagnoses and treatments, health assessments and
screenings, health education, referrals and social service assistance, including:
- Home visits for children from birth to three years of age through our Early Start program
- Free nursing visits to first-time and teen moms through our Welcome Home program
- Free healthcare and immunizations at more than a dozen sites throughout central Ohio through our traveling Outreach Coach
- Free door-to-door immunizations in five Columbus-area neighborhoods
- Health stations in two local community churches
- Support groups for victims of crime, children who have lost a parent, and patients with chronic debilitating diseases
- Care for those with life-limiting illnesses
The program brings comfort and hope to more than
40,000 central Ohioans each year, and is as considerable a benefit to the
community as it is to the patients and families it serves.
Last year alone the benefit Mount Carmel provided
to central Ohioans through free health services, outreach programs and other
initiatives exceeded $55 million. That's nearly double the tax-exempt benefit
we receive as a not-for-profit organization, and, we believe, a valuable
investment in the health of our community.
For more information on
community outreach programs at Mount Carmel, download our community benefit report.
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