Sunday, April 27, 2025
4/27/2025
Fiscal Year 2025 Expanded Hours. - The North Orange County Regional Health Foundation (NOCRHF) dba Family Health Matters Community Health Center (FHM) maintains a service area that extends throughout central Orange County and is located within the cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Fullerton, La Habra, and Placentia, including ten ZCTAs: 90621, 90631, 92801, 92804, 92805, 92806, 92831, 92832, 92833, and 92870. The service area’s total population is 544,322, and FHM’s target population for the FQHC program are those living below 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG), totaling 180,850, or 33.2%, of the residents. The Expanded Hours Populations of Focus are those 65+ years of age, and those newly insured through Medi-Cal Expansion to provide Medicaid coverage to California residents 26 through 49 years of age access to full scope Medi-Cal services, without regard to immigration status. Family Health Matters Community Health Center, the fixed site, currently operates from Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 12:00 noon, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm, and Saturday, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. The Expanded Hours Program will expand clinic hours from 7:00 am - 7:00 pm Monday - Saturday, providing an additional hour in the early mornings and two hours in the evenings during the week and stretching Saturday to a full 12 hours, representing a 70% increase in hours of operation. Services currently available at FHM fixed clinic site and those that will be expanded or added through the BHSE Program include the following: • Primary Medical Care – Adult, GYN, Voluntary Family Planning, Acute illness/infection, Chronic disease checks • Vision Care Services – Full-service vision care includes comprehensive exams and dispensing of needed visual aids. Dispensing of needed vision aids, and diagnostic of diseases and prevalent conditions for the population. • Integrated Mental Health Services – Provided in person and via telehealth. • Diagnostic Laboratory – Onsite laboratory testing and specimen collection will be provided. • Pharmacy – FHM’s inhouse pharmacy and will expand operation to provide pharmacy services including dispensing of medications and pharmacy consults. FHM’s contract pharmacy will continue to deliver prescribed medications to the health center or patients’ home during the pharmacy hours which overlap with FHM’s additional hours. • Specialty Referrals – Necessary referrals will be completed, as possible, during the expanded hours. This will include those referral sources that utilize online scheduling and other online portal access. • Health Care Navigation – Support will be provided to individuals needing assistance with applying for the State’s Medicaid expansion, Medi-Cal, Covered CA, and other payment programs to support expanded coverage and access to low and no cost health care services. • Health Coach – Like a Health Educator, the Health Coach provides information on how to be healthier and information on how to integrate the information into each patients’ life to ensure successful change. • Enhanced Care Management (ECM) – ECM will be prescribed to adults with chronic conditions and those experiencing homelessness.
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