QueensCare Health and Faith Partnership (QHFP)
QHFP provides a healthcare safety net for the most vulnerable through an interfaith parish nursing program that delivers free and low cost health promotion and disease-prevention activities in churches, temples, mosques, schools, and other community-based organizations. These activities include case management, health education and consultation, preventive screenings, and basic nursing care. QHFP currently partners with more than 60 organizations in the Greater Los Angeles area and reported 60,000 client encounters in the most recent year.
In addition to individualized nursing services, QHFP extends its services to include broad health outreach activities. Collaboration with the community is an essential feature of all QHFP activities and the key to the success of QHFP outreach efforts are that they are always community-driven.
Each organization partnering with QHFP creates a volunteer health cabinet (committee of people representing the organization) to identify the most needed services in their neighborhood. QHFP provides the nurses who work collaboratively with the health cabinet to create and carry out a plan for providing health services.
For many, QHFP is the entry point into the healthcare system. Operating out of places that people trust - faith and community-based organizations - these partnering sites, and the QHFP nurses who serve there, become the access bridge to primary care and other medical services. The ultimate goal is health maintenance and improvement for every person served through QHFP.
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