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Coalition Partners Include
MedStar Research Institute (MRI)
Website: www.medstarresearch.org
MRI is the research center for MedStar Health, the Baltimore/Washington area's largest health care delivery system. The purpose of MedStar Research Institute is to conduct and support medical research that results in better treatments and prevention strategies for the major diseases affecting the communities they serve. MRI provides scientific, administrative, and regulatory support for research programs that complement the key clinical services and teaching programs in all seven hospitals in the MedStar Health system.
Washington Hospital Center, Washington Cancer Institute (WCI) Preventorium
Website: www.whcenter.org
Dr. Huerta’s cancer prevention clinic, based at the Washington Hospital Center’s Cancer Institute has been open to patients since July 1994. Since that time, over 22,000 patients have visited the clinic and the overwhelming majority of them are of Hispanic origin. An office visit includes a complete physical examination, review of personal and family history of cancer and other diseases, personal health behavior assessment, and cancer screening examinations.
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC)
Website: lombardi.georgetown.edu
The Georgetown University LCCC is the only NCI—designated comprehensive cancer center serving the greater metropolitan Washington, DC area. The LCCC region encompasses six Maryland counties, five Virginia counties, several Virginia municipalities, and the District of Columbia. In July 2000, Georgetown University Hospital became part of MedStar Health, a not-for-profit network of hospitals serving communities throughout the Baltimore and Washington areas. The partnership between Lombardi and Georgetown University Hospital/MedStar Health ensures that patients have access to cutting edge cancer care, provided by dedicated cancer professionals in a supportive and caring setting.
Arlington Free Clinic (AFC)
Website: www.arlingtonfreeclinic.org
Over 12,000 people have received medical care since the AFC opened in 1994. Clinic services are available to all residents of Arlington County who have no health insurance and meet low income guidelines. Services are provided by over 550 volunteers and 60 percent of the population served is Latino.
Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC)
Website: http://www.capitalbreastcare.org/
CBCC was founded in 2004 with a generous grant from the Avon Foundation, who has remained a key partner since the Center welcomed its first patient. A community initiative of the LCCC at Georgetown University, CBCC serves a critical need in the District and surrounding suburbs with a mission to provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate breast cancer screening services, and to promote health and wellness to women in the DC area regardless of ability to pay. A safety-net medical provider, CBCC offers: on-site mammograms; health education; clinical breast examinations; cervical cancer screening for qualifying women; patient navigation services for women with abnormal screens or breast cancer symptoms; referral for emotional support, cancer treatment, primary care, untreated health conditions; competent, professional, compassionate staff; and bilingual staff.
CBCC is the only community-based breast cancer screening clinic in the DC metropolitan area—perhaps the nation—that provides screening and navigation services, ensuring that the medically underserved receive the care they need. CBCC has dramatically increased screening rates in the last five years, and is detecting cancers at twice the national average. These facts demonstrate the need for CBCC services and illustrate the Center’s success as a community-based model addressing the needs of urban women.
Capital Breast Care Center is a licensed, FDA certified mammography facility, accredited by the American College of Radiology.
La Clínica del Pueblo (LCDP)
Website: www.lcdp.org
La Clínica del Pueblo is a Federally Qualified Health Center whose mission is to provide culturally appropriate health services to persons in the Latino community regardless of their ability to pay. La Clínica, which was founded in 1983, provides primary medical care, mental health care, social services, interpretative services, HIV care, community health promotion, and healthcare advocacy for uninsured and underinsured, low-income families. More than 90 percent of La Clinica's clients have incomes below the poverty level and over 90 percent are most comfortable communicating in Spanish.
Community Clinics, Inc. (CCI)
Website: www.cciweb.org
CCI provides important primary health care services for the whole family. For more than 39 years, CCI has sought to fulfill its mission of providing high quality primary care and health-related services for medically under-served persons, promoting improved access to health care services, and conducting CCI's mission in a non-discriminatory manner, sensitive to the needs of the community and the dignity of every individual.
In addition, CCI administers the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program which provides nutrition education and supplemental foods at no cost to eligible women and children less than 5 years of age for Montgomery and sections of Northwestern Prince George's counties.
CCI welcomes adults and children in need of health care and nutrition services. With clinic sites located in Gaithersburg, Takoma/Langley Park, Silver Spring and Greenbelt for health services and Aspen Hill, Germantown and Rockville for WIC services.
INOVA Fairfax Hospital
Website: www.inova.org
Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova’s flagship hospital, is an 833—bed, nationally recognized regional medical center serving the Washington, D.C., metro area. Inova Fairfax Hospital is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the United States. It has Northern Virginia’s only level 1 trauma center for treating the most critically injured patients, includes one of the nation's most—sought—out obstetrics programs and offers a level 3 neonatal intensive care unit.
Nueva Vida
Website:http://nueva-vida.org/
The mission of Nueva Vida is to inform, support and empower Latinas whose lives are affected by cancer, and to advocate for and facilitate the timely access to state of the art cancer care, including screening, diagnosis, treatment and care for all Latinas. Nueva Vida was established in 1996, operated under the fiscal sponsorship of La Clínica del Pueblo and the Washington Hospital Center, and was incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 2000. All Nueva Vida’s services are offered in Spanish and are free of charge.
Spanish Catholic Center, Inc. (SCC)
Website: www.catholiccharitiesdc.org
The SCC operates two medical clinics in the Washington metropolitan area (Mt. Pleasant, and Langley Park). All of the Center’s patients are without medical insurance or have DC Health Care Alliance. Over ninety percent of the patients are members of the Hispanic community. Through the Archdiocesan Health Care Network, the SCC makes more than 1,000 referrals annually to more than 250 specialists and seven hospitals that provide specialty care.
