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Jeanie Schmidt Free Clinic
| Impacting Lives ... Improving Community Health Ten Years. Healthier Together. |
Jeanie Schmidt Free Clinic Joins with Loudoun Community Health Center to create HealthWorks for Northern Virginia With the number of those in our community needing access to health care at an all time high, earlier this year Jeanie Schmidt Free Clinic began an intensive process of examining how it could expand its capacity to see more patients. We held many meetings, talked with many people, and looked at several options. After much thought and deliberation, we decided the best way to achieve this goal was to join with another not for profit so that together we would have the resources to open a new and larger health center in Herndon. Earlier this year we began talking with the Loudoun Community Health Center (LCHC), which is a not for profit health care provider with two locations in Loudoun County, providing care to 6,000 low income patients. LCHC is what is known as a federally qualified health center (FQHC). LCHC is not a government program nor a government clinic. Its funding comes from sources very similar to JSFC’s, including local government, foundations, community groups, United Way/CFC, and donors. On October 1, 2012 the JSFC and the LCHC formally merged to become one entity - with extraordinary teamwork and collaboration, we merged two medical practices into one, completed the hiring of all JSFC employees by the Loudoun Community Health Center, and began to think of ourselves as a new, much larger entity. All of our patients have been transitioned with no disruption in their care. In recognition of our now having health centers in both Loudoun and Fairfax Counties, the organization has adopted a new overall name - the Loudoun Community Health Center has become HealthWorks for Northern Virginia. In its continued effort to meet the growing demand for health care services in the community JSFC is grateful to our many volunteers who give of their time and talents towards making our mission of providing increased access to quality health care possible. Our partnership with area universities adds significantly to our ability to accomplish this goal. JSFC is also grateful to its many partners, including Reston Hospital Center, Fairfax County, Inova Health System, our local faith communities, The Closet, Herndon Rotary Club, Kaiser Permanente, George Mason University, Northern Virginia Health Foundation, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Cisco Systems Foundation, the American Medical Association, Virginia Health Care Foundation, and the Launders Family Foundation. We look forward to working with all of you as we move ahead in our new capacity as HealthWorks for Northern Virginia Herndon, providing our community with high quality, comprehensive and accessible health care. For more information, we invite you to go to our new website: |