FUTURE GOALS
In addition to serving as a medical home for our patients, Effort & Serenity Health & Wellness Community Services Clinic would like to provide the following services:
FUTURE GOALS-BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES
Effort & Serenity Health & Wellness Community Services Clinic would like to have a psychologist who will oversee an active Behavioral Health team that includes community volunteers and masters’ degree counseling students. We plan to approach our patients with an awareness of the impact of trauma in their lives - displacement of people from their homes, separation from loved ones, grieving, anger management. We will screen each patient for critical issues that ought to be addressed by the Behavioral Health team.
FUTURE GOALS-Medshare program
We would like to be involved with the Med Share program which collaborates with other free clinics in the Milwaukee area to increase access to medication and lower the costs of those medications to the patients of these free clinics.
The pharmacist at Effort & Serenity Health & Wellness Community Services Clinic will be the person who:
manages the program,
trains new technicians,
maintains the inventory of medications for sharing with other free clinics,
maintains a list of medications and supplies that can be shared with other free clinics,
coordinates efforts to secure Patient Assistance Program medications from pharmaceutical companies for patients.
FUTURE GOALS-Health Resource Center
We would like to have a place where patients can call to access these services. If patients are applying for insurance or specialty care, please bring letters or any available medical records, in addition to your most recent federal income tax and last three check stubs.
The HRC can assist if the following is true for patients:
You are interested in applying for Badger Care or other insurance
Your insurance will be changing soon
You are seeking a primary care provider
You need help scheduling an appointment with a counselor or psychiatrist
You need dental or vision care
You want to know where to apply for energy assistance
You were recently in the hospital and need help scheduling follow-up care
You haven't been feeling well and you need help finding a doctor
FUTURE GOALS-Dental
We would like to have limited dental services are available for established patients in the clinic and offer dental exams, cleanings, extractions, partials, dentures, and restorative care as we grow. There may be some costs associated with appliances.
FUTURE GOALS-Eye Care
We would like to have a dedicated exam room for eye care, and can provided limited services for eye exams, vision testing and prescriptions for correction, and eye glasses. There may be are some costs associated with glasses for patients.
FUTURE GOALS-EDUCATION
In the future, Effort & Serenity Health and Wellness Community Services would like to provide education for medical students and residents in three different areas: 1.) healthcare economics, (i.e. who is covered by healthcare insurance, who is not and why), 2.) disparities in healthcare because of race, class, gender, or economic status, and 3.) spirituality's role in healthcare. The goal is to instill in students a life-long commitment of service to the underserved and a realization of the connection between mid/body/spirit in creating health.
The clinic vision for our clinic will be to also serve as a teaching site for nursing students, social work students, health care administration students, and behavioral health students.
FUTURE GOALS-Services for PATIENTS at our free clinic
Diabetes Education
Psychologists and Behavioral Health Counselors
Social Work services
Specialist services: cardiology, neurology, nephrology, orthopedics, rheumatology, dermatology
Nutrition Education
Echocardiograms