Posts tagged Community Health Center
Bitterroot Drug celebrates 11 years, new remodel with customer appreciation week

Bitterroot Drug participates in a Sapphire Community Health discount program where patients can get discounted medications regardless of their income as long as they are a patient of a Sapphire Community Health prescriber.

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Tuesday is National Day of Action For community health centers

On Tuesday, February 6, there will be a National Day of Action to urge Congress to reauthorize the Community Health Center Fund. In Hamilton, the Sapphire Community Health Center is on the 300 block of North 3rd.

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Open enrollment for health care starts Nov. 1

At Sapphire Community Health, we provide free, easy and unbiased help to make the process of enrolling easier for you. Coming in for help doubles your chance of successfully enrolling in coverage! Plus, we can help answer any health coverage questions you may have.

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Andrew Walters Foundation raising funds to help locals

The Andrew Walters Foundation for Charitable Giving is raising funds to provide assistance to families and individuals in need. Irene Walters works at Sapphire Community Health Center, which gave her a room to store supplies for the foundation.

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Sapphire clinic gets funds to address opioid epidemic

Sapphire Community Health (SCH), the non-profit, federally-qualified health center located in Hamilton, celebrated its second anniversary on Monday, October 23. The clinic is also the recent recipient of a $175,000 grant to institute a new program designed to address the growing opioid epidemic.

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RavCo to hire five nurses to help with inmate medical services

The conundrum over inmate medical care at the Ravalli County Detention Center appears to be solved. The county plans to hire two full-time registered nurses currently employed by Sapphire Community Health. 

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Ravalli Co. jail to hire its own nursing staff

After almost a year of uncertainty the Ravalli County detention facility may have a solution to providing in-house medical care to jail inmates. Sapphire Community Health, stepped up to provide care in the interim. But its contract runs out Sept. 30.

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Sapphire Community Health clinic funded for three more years

No one is turned away at the Sapphire Community Health clinic in Hamilton for inability to pay and, thanks to a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), our local Community Health Center will continue to offer its valuable services to Bitterroot community members.

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Hamilton’s Sapphire Community Health Care receives funds

Senator Steve Daines announced that Sapphire Community Health Inc. will be getting $704,000 in the Labor, Health and Human Services...Sapphire CommunityHealth is at 316 North Third in Hamilton.

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Hamilton woman said the ability to obtain health insurance saved her life

When the hospital employees began talking about the cost of the surgery, she could hardly comprehend it. The estimate ran between $150,000 and $200,000. Dutton was one of the first in Ravalli County to sign up for health insurance through the network created under the Affordable Care Act.

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Bitterroot Taskforce on Homelessness and Housing completes Point in Time Count

There were 41 participants in the 2017 Point in Time Count conducted by The Bitterroot Taskforce on Homelessness and Housing. The survey asked homeless people, sheltered and unsheltered, where they slept on the night of January 26 and some specifics about their situation.

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County Commission to write letter of support for Sapphire Community Health grant

The Ravalli County commissioners agreed Monday to write a support letter for the Sapphire Community Health grant application to Health Resources & Services for a community health center with a sliding scale of fees.

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