There will also be a walk-in vaccine clinic where Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots for anyone 6 months or older will be available. Executive Director JR Porter will give tours of the Health Center while Community Health Worker Erin White will provide information about our programs and services.
Lamb has been performing and teaching hula hooping for over a decade. She explained, “I love hula hooping because it’s a playful way to exercise and dance with music, and it reminds me that I’m not perfect and it’s ok to drop the hoop and pick it back up and keep learning and growing. There’s no one-size-fits-all way to be active. I like to encourage people to think outside the box and find something that’s joyful for them.”
Health centers provide preventive and primary care services to nearly 29 million people and have continued to do so while facing a global pandemic. While our approach is community-based and local, collectively we are the backbone of the nation’s primary care system. Community Health Centers lower health care costs to the tune of 24 billion dollars a year, reduce rates chronic diseases, and stimulate local economies.
Community Health Centers are not just healers, we are innovators who look beyond medical charts to address the factors that may cause poor health, such as poverty, homelessness, substance use, mental illness, lack of nutrition, and unemployment. While COVID-19 continues to exacerbate social and medical inequities across the country, Community Health Centers have stretched themselves to reconfigure services for those in need.
White Mountain Community Health Center is Mt. Washington Valley’s local Community Health Center. We exist to ensure that everyone in our area can access high quality healthcare they can afford, no matter what’s going on in their lives. We do this through our sliding fee scale, patient care funds, cost transparency, and care coordinators who help patients resolve issues interfering with their health such as housing or food access.
We are governed by a local board of directors made up primarily of our own patients, who make sure we are providing excellent care for everyone we serve. Our patients are representative of the community at large, friends and neighbors – those with chronic diseases or serious illnesses, those who are well, those with extra to give, those who are going through difficult times and need extra support, and many in between. We are here for everyone.
We are accepting new patients for adult and pediatric primary care, children’s dental services, family planning, mental health counseling, and substance abuse treatment. COVID vaccination and testing is available for all. Established patients can also access nutrition counseling with a registered dietician, adult dental cleanings and X-rays, and care coordination.
For more information or to become a patient, visit our website at whitemountainhealth.org or call us at (603) 447-8900 – or come to the open house!