(Left) Arneatha Martin is pictured with Steven Schroeder, President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
"A healthy community is our goal"
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Center for Health and Wellness certainly is more than just a health
care facility. We host a number of prevention and wellness education programs
for patients as well as hosting a number of professional medical and nursing
education opportunities.
Services Provided Include:
The Center is a valuable resource to the community, in addition the Center is the only public videoconferencing facility available in Wichita. We also host satellite conferences for continuing education purposes as well as various consumer education classes such as personal finance classes. Since our opening we have hosted more than 20,000 participants in various organizational events and meetings.
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The Center for Health
and Wellness (CHW) is a primary health care facility, providing care to
the Northeast area of Wichita, an area that needs it most. The Clinic
provides health care services for identified high risk populations; the
elderly, childbearing families, and children. It facilitates
the delivery of health education, treatment, and prevention services, and
improves the overall health condition of the community in order to allow
residents to participate more fully in the revitalization and rehabilitation
of the Northeast area.
A Stronger Tomorrow
The Center for Health and Wellness utilizes a "Capacity Focused" approach. This approach leads toward the development of policies and activities based on the capacities, skills and assets of the people and their neighborhoods. This partnership allows the Northeast community to be stronger and more powerful in its quest for health and wellness. The clinic is a warm, friendly and inviting
setting for community primary care with health-care staff working at the
grassroots level to promote health and prevent disease.
State-of-the-art Facility The Clinic is located at the corner of 21st and Erie in a 5,020 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility. An education center and children’s courtyard complement the campus and provide the space needed to promote health and decrease high risk behavior to prevent disease through education. A full time Family Practice Physician and an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) are the foundation of the medical staff. The clinic functions as a member of a managed care network, qualifying the clinic to receive payments to manage high-risk patients. Now in its 4th year, the Center for Health
and Wellness was founded and sustained by the support of the Wichita community
both business and individuals.
Posted 9/10/2002 - Wichita Eagle
The Center for Health and Wellness is offering $150 to African-Americans who participate in a new program. The Wichita Eagle Wichita's Center for Health and Wellness is looking for 150 African-American men and women willing to change their health for the better, and it will pay them to do so. Participants in the Access, Prevention, Education -- Key to a Healthy Community project can earn $150 during the year-long program. But the results will last "long after this project gets over," promised
Arneatha Martin, co-president and chief executive of the center.
Program organizers will try to get people to recognize that obesity is one of the biggest risk factors for those diseases, she said, and to do something about it. Participants will undergo health histories and have their blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol checked at the beginning of the program and again at the end. They will be counseled on the results of the tests and will participate in the center's Activities for Life exercise program. A women's version of that program has grown popular since its beginning two years ago, Martin said, and a separate program is being started for men. Participants will get some of the money at the beginning of their involvement, more halfway through and the rest at the end. Funding comes from the Sunflower Foundation, a health-related philanthropy in Topeka. For more information, call Donna Shipp, program coordinator, at 612-6899.
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The
clinic collaboratively works to improve the total health status of the
community through the provision of a seamless continuum of care system
that is different from any competitive health care services already existing
in the community.
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