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Causes: Community Clinics, Health, Mental Health, Mental Health Treatment
Mission: Waimanalo health center is committed to providing the highest level of primary and preventive health services, with special attention to the needs of native hawaiians and the medically underserved, and improving the health and wellness of individuals and their `ohana regardless of their ability to pay.
Programs: Medical services: whc provides affordable medical, behavioral health, nutrition, and vision services to residents of waimanalo and surrounding communities. As reported to hrsa on whc's 2016 uds report for medical services, whc served 4,565 unduplicated patients during 20,523 medical service provider visits.
patient support services: includes care management, health education, health promotion, electronic health record information technology, quality reporting, patient portal and other services to support patient centered care delivery for medical and dental services. Care management and patient health education supported an additional 1,202 patients for 1,595 visits as reported to hrsa on whc's 2016 uds report.
dental services: whc provides affordable dental care to residents of waimanalo and surrounding communities. As reported to hrsa on whc's 2016 uds report, whc served 1,684 patients during 4,363 dental provider visits.
other program services: whc hosts and supports community outreach, enabling and education programs. Programs include: women, infants, and children (wic); on-site eligibility workers to assist families with benefit programs and health insurance enrollment; family planning; nutrition and health promotions; ku i ka mana student mentoring program (kikm); keiki smiles dental outreach to the schools; cancer screening and awareness under susan g. Komen and the state breast and cervical cancer prevention programs (bcccp); outreach to prevent homelessness; and others. These programs support a caseload of approximately 4,555 resulting in more than 13,179 visits.