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The History of the Center The Family Health Center opened in June 1992 as an innovative community effort to provide primary and preventive health care services and to establish linkages with community-based resources necessary to improve the health status of families. With a broad-based community coalition consisting of the three major hospitals, the Columbia Area United Way, the Columbia/Boone County Health Department, the University School of Medicine and the Missouri Department of Social Services, the Center targeted uninsured and underinsured Boone County families who did not have a primary care provider and who used emergency rooms for access to primary health care.
Organizational Status The Center is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt, not-for-profit corporation with a local governing board comprised of 17 members and 5 ex-officio members. Patients of the Center comprise 51% of the membership of the board. The Center is managed by the Executive Director. The Center is organized into two main departments; administration and clinical. The Center has been designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). FQHC's are funded in part by a federal grant awarded to provide health care services to uninsured and underinsured people.
Services The Center provides Primary and Specialty Health Care Services with physicians and nurse practitioners certified in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Dermatology, and Orthopedics. Additionally, the Center provides Mental and Behavioral Health Services, Social Work, Medications Assistance, Referral and other enabling services. |
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1001 West Worley Phone: (877) 677-4342 |
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