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Alexandria Neighborhood Health Services, Inc. “A Decade of Champions - A Community Success Story” Alexandria Neighborhood Health Services, Inc. (ANHSI), a unique community service of which Alexandria citizens may be justly proud, celebrated its 10th anniversary – “A Decade of Champions” - on Friday evening, February 22, with a lively reception at the Old Town Alexandria Hilton. ANHSI manages the Arlandria Health Center located in the Arlandria neighborhood in Alexandria; it is Northern Virginia first Federally Qualified Health Center. The Health Center provides culturally competent, and often bilingual pediatric, adult medicine and women’s health services to a vibrantly diverse community. ANHSI places a strong emphasis on illness prevention, providing health education and nutrition counseling. A full-time registered dietitian and mental health counselors complement the skilled provider and nursing staff. Two dental clinics provide 16 hours a week of oral health services. The Arlandria Health Center is a vital resource for some of Alexandria’s most vulnerable residents and in 2007, provided medical services to 7,120 men, women and children, most of them without health insurance and nowhere else to turn for medical care. In fact, 93 percent of adult patients receiving care do not have health insurance; 22, 831 health care visits were held in 2007. After ten full years of operation, the Arlandria Health Center has provided critically important health services to a total of 39, 403 children, women and men in our community through 135,500 health care visits. The Health Center continues to fill a large gap in the health care safety net in Alexandria and surrounding communities, providing a fully accessible program without eligibility restrictions for low-income, uninsured individuals in the area. Human interest stories abound in ANHSI’s records. Stories of infants and young children whose illnesses were undiagnosed or untreated either for lack of funds for health care or their parents’ inability to understand a treatment regimen are commonplace. Most of these children fully regain their health when their families have access to affordable primary health care, they have been put on the appropriate medications and their mothers are taught not only how to administer them but also how to prevent future illnesses. ANHSI evolved through the concerted efforts of a broad cross section of Alexandrians, and everyone agrees that its success is due to a comprehensive community effort. Credit for ANHSI’s continued success also goes to many people, including dedicated Boards of Directors, an outstanding clinical and administrative staff, the full support of such officials as Congressman Jim Moran, Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille and City Council Members, Dr. Charles Konigsberg and Alexandria Health Department staff, Senator Patsy Ticer, and Delegate Marian Van Landingham, as well as the generosity of numerous individuals, foundations and state and federal governments, many of whom have supported ANHSI throughout the past decade. At the “Decade of Champions” Anniversary Celebration, many individuals were recognized for their unique contributions to this community. In many ways, ANHSI represents the spirit of giving and caring of the Alexandria community and its propensity to always do the right thing.
For more information contact Kristin Langlykke, Executive Director, at (703) 778-0340 or Nyrma Hernandez, Development Director, at (703) 360-4387. |
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