Community Health Centers Inc

Community Health Centers' (CHC) foremost goal is to provide affordable and high quality healthcare services to Central Florida's diverse communities.  In addition to our 14 centers throughout Central Florida, our goals are to provide more services in more communities. In July 2020, we added a new health enter in the Four Corners area of Clermont, Florida.  This area has been identified by HRSA as a Medically Underserved Area and Population and is also a Health Professional Shortage Area.   Services at the Four Corners Center include pediatric and adult services, behavioral health, dental, pharmacy, optometry and behavioral health. 
By the end of 2021, CHC will complete the expansion of an 8,500 sq. ft. health center on currently owned Bithlo property to replace a 1,350 sq. ft. trailer.  This new permanent building will allow of expansion of current family primary medical services and laboratory while providing new access to pediatric medical, pediatric and adult dental, optometry, behavioral health, and pharmacy services.   
Within the next 3-4 years, CHC is planning on expanding CHC's Apopka Family Health Center through construction efforts to add extra exam rooms to our family and OB/GYN services.   There is a huge need for expansion in the Apopka community.
Though each of these projects, barriers to healthcare will be reduced for the uninsured and underinsured due to the provision of comprehensive affordable and accessible healthcare services.  CHC will improve health outcomes and decrease utilization of non-urgent ER and inpatient hospital visits.

Our Strategy to Providing Excellent Health Care:
1. Employing the best trained clinical and professional staff
2. Providing healthcare services in convenient locations
3. 100% compliance with electronic health records for medical, dental and pharmacy services.
4. Understanding & adapting to the ethnic & cultural diversity of Central Florida with culturally diverse staff.
5. Offering affordable services to patients regardless of their insurance status.
6. Offering special assistance to medically under-served, medically uninsured and/or special at-risk populations.

Since 1972 CHC has been providing services to communities in need.  As a Federally Qualified Health Centers, CHC relies on our HRSA federal grant to off-set the costs of the uninsured.  Through private, county, and state grants, CHC is able to provide many programs to individuals in need.  With over 500 employees CHC is able to serve over 68,000 individual patients throughout Central Florida.  CHC has a Board of Directors that oversees the organization and is made up of over 50% users of our services.

Over the past 4 years, due to an overwhelming demand of health care services, CHC was able to open 4 new health centers in 4 different communities (Tavares, Pine Hills relocation, Forest City, Clermont).  CHC added new optometry services to Forest City, Winter Garden and in the Spring of 2019 will provide optometry services in Pine Hills. Behavioral health has been added to three health centers including Pine Hills, Winter Garden and Forest City.