Long Beach Medical Center
Long Beach Medical Center
Grant Status
Completed
Project Title
Healthy Sundays: Outreach through Faith-Based Organizations
Award Amount
$118,310
Location
Long Beach
Website
Date Awarded
November 16, 2006
This grant to Long Beach Medical Center supported the Healthy Sundays Program, a project to improve access to health information and screenings for uninsured local Hispanic/Latino communities through collaboration between community health liaisons and health professionals at two Catholic parishes.
Major project activities included: (1) weekly presentations by the parish priest and a Church Health Liaison on common health concerns; (2) monthly presentations by health professionals about chronic disease prevention and management for conditions such as diabetes and breast cancer; and (3) monthly screenings for chronic diseases.
Long Beach Medical Center is a nonprofit community hospital that is the major health care provider for residents of Long Beach and the surrounding communities in Nassau County.
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