About 13 percent of York County residents with HIV don’t know they’re infected with the virus, according to estimates from Family First Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
We spoke with the York Dispatch on why everyone should get tested, and why bringing awareness to the spread of HIV is still important.
When it comes to teen birth rates, where you live matters.
A November report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows U.S. teen births nationwide dropped 9 percent between 2007 and 2015 to their lowest point in history — 22.3 births per 1,000 females — from 41.5, but there are large disparities when it comes to geographic regions.
“We are gaining a better understanding of the nuances that impact rates of teen pregnancy, along with many other health indicators, and those are largely linked to social determinants of health,” said Family First Health CEO Jenny Englerth.
About 5,800 new Pennsylvanians will get the news this month that they have a chronic illness that’s treatable but not curable.
“Ideally preventative care is going to help identify those risk factors for chronic illness early on before that’s even able to materialize,” Family First Health CEO Jenny Englerth shared in a recent article from the York Dispatch. “Focusing on children and adults through healthy eating, exercise, immunizations — all those things position people to prevent progression of that illness.”
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FAMILY FIRST HEALTH RECEIVES $50,000 GRANT TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE SERVICES AND IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR DELTA RESIDENTS
York, PA – Family First Health, in York, has received a $50,000 grant from the Memorial Health Fund to support its Healthy Delta initiative. Announcement of the grant was made by Jane M. Conover, President of the York County Community Foundation, whose Board of Directors approved the grant on October 26, 2016.
Jenny Englerth, CEO of Family First Health, said the funds would be used to build on the work done by the Healthy York County Coalition in 2016 by further evaluating community health status using a community health worker model and engaging stakeholders in development of a primary care service delivery model designed to improve health outcomes for individuals and families living in Delta and the surrounding areas.
Founded in 1970, Family First Health is a non-profit, federally qualified health center dedicated to increasing access to affordable, high-quality medical care, dental care and social services. Annually, they provide services to over 21,000 people at six convenient locations across Adams, Lancaster and York counties.
The Memorial Health Fund improves the complete physical, mental and social well-being of the residents of York, Pennsylvania and its surrounding communities.
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How important is family support for an individual who identifies as LGBTQ? It may seem like an usual focus for a primary care practice — but as providers, we understand that a friend, parent or other family member can play a crucial role in how accepted an individual feels when he or she comes out.
Our program manager for Caring Together, Shannon McElroy, spoke with AARP on how parents and grandparents of LGBTQ individuals can educate themselves and provide support for their child or grandchild.
The reason people who die from overdose after being clean for a period of time is rooted in biochemistry, said Dr. Debra Bell, director of clinical quality improvement for Family First Health.
A person becomes dependent on heroin, or other drugs or other things that aren’t drugs, because of how that stimulus works on the brain, Bell said. Other things, like exercise, work in a similar way.
“There are parts of the brain that will be triggered in different ways to create a dependency for anything,” Bell said.
York-based Family First Health has opened its first Lancaster County practice.
The primary and mental health care provider, which serves many low-income people and families, now has a location in Columbia at 369 Locust St. The office started seeing patients last week.
Family First Health – Columbia Center marks the organization’s sixth location. Family First’s other locations are spread between York and Adams counties.
Family First has been seeing more than 500 patients from Columbia and surrounding boroughs for many years, but the patients were traveling to York for services, according to CEO Jenny Englerth.
The York Daily Record investigation team took a look at the 127 heroin-related overdoses and published a handful of stories that look at the epidemic plaguing York County and the nation. They also told some stories of those who lost their loved ones to the drug.
Stacey Burroughs, our behavioral health coordinator, and Erin Cosgrove-Findley, program manager of The SAFER Initiative, weighed in on the issue in the articles.
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Treating patients with dignity is a top priority for Dr. Marie Kellett. She says this as she opens up a Family First Health office in Columbia, pointing to a service trip to rural Virginia and a severe car accident as reasons for her passion for helping rural, underserved communities.
In her fourth year of medical school, Kellett lost her left leg above the knee after she was hit by a drunk driver. She endured 12 surgeries, spent a month in a hospital’s intensive care unit and took two months away from school to recover.
During that time, Kellett had many visits with doctors. The ones who sat down with her and had a more personal bedside manner seemed like they were more supportive, Kellett recalled. It is why she believes so much now in sitting with patients and putting their needs first.
“I would have never asked to have been hit by a car, (but the result is) I am a better doctor, wife and mother,” Kellett said.
Kellett is running the first Family First Health office outside of York and Adams counties, where the the non-profit company operates. The office at 369 Locust St. formally opened Tuesday with a full schedule of patients and no issues, office staff told PennLive.
