Queenscare

Programs: Queenscare operates jointly with queenscare health centers to provide a network of 5 freestanding family healthcare centers in areas of los angeles county that are medically underserved. The health centers provide services to all patients without regard to ability to pay. Each health center is an approved medicaid and medicare provider. The clinics provide free medical care for those who do not have the financial resources or coverage by health plans, insurance or government programs. The clinics provide preventive, diagnostic, and follow-up medical and dental care to the residents of low-income communities. During 2016-2017, the health centers served appoximately 25,000 patients which accounted for 100,000 visits.

to support the operation of the queenscare health centers and to further the organization's exempt purpose of providing medical care to the underprivileged and indigent residents of los angeles county, queenscare provides the following medical care support services in coordination with the services provided by the health centers: inpatient and outpatient healthcare services; contract with specialist to provide all fields of medical care. Queenscare provides funding for perinatal service for high-risk pregnancies.

queenscare operates 6 direct care divisions: 1) the pastoral care division provides spiritual care to inpatients and staff at hollywood presbyterian medical center. During fy 2017, the chaplains visited with 77,016 patients, performed 1,028 anointing and discussed advance directives with 267 patients and their families; 2) queenscare health and faith partnership (qhfp) is the largest parish nurse program in california. There are 16 parish nurses and 5 community health workers. Together they provide immunizations, health screening, cpr training, and parenting classes at the various partner sites including, churches, food pantries, synagogues, senior nutrition sites, the braille institute and schools. In addition, qhfp help plan and participated in 583 outreach events and sponsored health fairs; 3) the mobile dental program - queenscare together with usc school of dentistry provides mobile dental clinic services at lausd's elementary schools. In 2017, queenscare provided services at 11 schools and served 2,064 children and provided 14,763 visits. In addition, queenscare provided oral hygiene presentations and instructions to every child in every school visited and distributed 2,200 oral hygiene kits; 4) queenscare provides mobile vision program to low-income communities through lausd. The mobile vision program was offered at 24 lausd middle schools and 2 catholic schools. Total of 2,120 prescriptions were written by queenscare's optometrist and 1,717 glasses were provided the students at no cost; 5) the mental health program which provided services to 215 children between the ages of 5 and 18 and their families. The children are referred by queenscare health centers, lausd, and qhfp because of trauma experienced, as well as other issues; and 6) charitable division - the charitable board met twice in 2017 and approved 39 grants amounting to $2. 0 million were approved. In addition, the charitable board also approved 25 scholarships and funded 14 area hospitals with emergency medical services grants amounting to another $2. 0 million.