HCH Directory - Oklahoma

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Healing Hands Health Care Services

411 NW 11th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73103
Phone: (405) 272-0476
Fax: (405) 272-0730
Email: sgeurin@hhhcs.org
Web: www.hhhcs.org
Director: Rosalyn G. Johnson, MBA, (HOM) CPM
HCH Coordinator: Susan Geurin
Medical Director: Douglas Young, MD
UDS Number: 060530

Project Description

Healing Hands Health Care Services (HHHCS), a service site of Mary Mahoney Memorial Health Center and operated by Community Health Centers, serves individuals and families who are homeless in Oklahoma City.

The program operates an ambulatory health care facility in downtown Oklahoma City that provides on-site primary care access to individuals across the lifespan. The clinic is accessible to the community’s three shelters and the downtown bus station. Clinic staff includes physicians, nurses, a mental health counselor, case manager, program assistant, and program coordinator. A wide range of primary health care services is provided on-site, including medical care, preventive health services, well child care, immunizations, HIV education/testing, counseling, family planning, pregnancy testing, mental health counseling, adult immunizations, WIC, and pharmaceuticals. Limited diagnostic laboratory testing is available. Case management activities include transportation arrangements, eligibility assistance for Medicaid, housing resource identification, crisis intervention, and remedial education. Women and Children Health Access Program (WCHAP), funded by Oklahoma City's Continuum of Care, offers primary health care to women and children at three shelter clinics and on-site at HHHCS. Services include perinatal care/postpartum follow-up, simple laboratory procedures, pregnancy testing, immunizations, women's health care, health education, family planning, TB screening, and medical assistance applications. WCHAP staff includes a family nurse practitioner, licensed practical nurse, and case manager.

Linkages are in place for dental care and complex laboratory studies. HHHCS maintains referral linkages with St. Anthony Hospital and University Hospitals for emergency medical, radiology services, specialty medical services, and OB/GYN care. HHHCS has established linkages with day centers, emergency shelters, mental health/substance abuse counseling, and other social service agencies.

Estimated homeless population: 7,500 Patients served: 2,312

Tri-City Youth and Family Services
PO Box 695
Choctaw, OK 73020
Contact: Don Abbott
Phone: (405) 390-8131
Fax: (405) 390-8134
Email: kids1st@tds.net

Morton Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. - Satellite Clinic

102 North Denver Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74103
Phone: (918) 295-6942
Fax: (918) 295-6948
Email: dmanns@mortonhealth.org
Web: www.mortonhealth.org
Director: Robert D. Sanders, MA
HCH Coordinator: Daniel Page, BS
Medical Director: Michael Opong-Kusi, DO
UDS Number: 063890

Project Description

Morton Comprehensive Health Services' mission is to provide, promote, and maintain the optimal health of patients through the delivery of high quality, comprehensive, coordinated, responsive, respectful, and continuous medical and educational primary health care services that are affordable, accessible, and culturally and linguistically competent to the Greater Tulsa area.

Morton provides primary and oral health care, substance abuse counseling, and crisis counseling to people who are homeless with the use of full-time staff, including a physician, physician assistant, clinic manager, LPN, and two CMAs. An outreach HIV counselor/educator is also available. The satellite clinic works in conjunction with Morton Comprehensive Health Services' main center to provide internal medicine, pediatrics, women's health, laboratory, radiology, WIC, basic dental services, health/nutrition education, pharmacy, and transportation services.

Morton Comprehensive Health Services has linkages with Salvation Army Shelter–Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center, Family and Children Services, John 3:16 Mission, Tulsa Emergency Shelter, Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless, and Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS).

Estimated homeless population: 1,000 Patients served: 507