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Causes: Ambulatory & Primary Health Care, Community Health Systems, Food, Food Banks & Pantries, Health, Human Services
Mission: To improve the health and well-being of our community by assuring access to affordable high quality healthcare, coordinated services, and health related information.
Programs: Wood river health services is a private, non-profit, federally qualified health center providing top quality care to southern rhode island and southeastern connecticut residents. The health center serves the entire community, those with insurance and those without, and has instituted self-pay models, sliding scale payments and a community fund to help those who could not afford care. Wood river health services is a full-service medical and dental facility providing primary care for families and individuals as well as social services, mental and behavioral health counseling. A wide range of lab work, including x-ray, mammography and phlebotomy is provided on-site by yale new haven health westerly hospital. A chronic care program provides specialized, focused, long-term care and education for patients with diabetes and cardio-vascular disease, a women's health program provides a focus on gynecological exams, family planning and pre-natal care, and cancer screenings, and a nutritional health program provides counseling and management of illness-related dietary needs and oversees the local wic (women, infants and children) program.