QueensCare Health & Faith Partnership

The QueensCare Health and Faith Partnership is a growing coalition of multiethnic volunteers called the “Health Cabinet” in over 35 churches, non-public schools, and community agencies. These volunteers bring Parish Nurses into their community to provide health education, screening for major disease, and basic care for no or low cost. Operating out of places of faith – places that people trust – these sites create the access bridge to primary care in clinics and hospital care.

  • Parish Nurses, together with Community Health Workers, provide wellness counseling, health education, and specific health services, including health screenings and immunizations.
  • Parish Nurses are available on a walk-in basis weekly at a partner site.
  • QHFP clients who need additional care will be referred to QueensCare Family Clinics and other community resources.
  • These faith-based centers are trusted organizations tied closely to their respective communities, and are extremely flexible to respond to healthcare needs in a variety of ways.
  • With culturally and linguistically diverse nurses, and the active partnership of the faith community, the Partnership reflects the larger community it is serving.

Background

The QueensCare Health & Faith Partnership began as a vision by Father Steve Ryan and Reverend John Wagner and was founded in 1993 to provide health programs directed to the "whole person" -- the body, mind and spirit. QHFP serves as a model for bringing accessible and culturally appropriate healthcare and preventive care to poor communities, resulting in far fewer visits to emergency rooms.

The Partnership is able to provide this wholistic healthcare to the under-served and uninsured through the hard work and generosity of individuals and organizations including:

  • Wheatridge Foundation
  • The James Irvine Foundation
  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • The California Endowment
  • and many others.

 

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