Salud Family Health Centers - Services

Our Programs & Services

The Salud system provides a full spectrum of high-quality, comprehensive, culturally competent, primary medical and dental care, including obstetrics and out-patient care. These services are provided by physicians, physician assistants, licensed psychologists, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers and health educators. Salud promotes prevention and early intervention, thus keeping underinsured or uninsured individuals out of hospital emergency rooms.

Health Services Integration

Salud is dedicated to integrating the total health care needs of the patient in one clinical setting by providing medical, dental and mental health services at many of its sites with the ultimate goal of providing all of these services at all sites. Currently Salud has dental services in four of the nine communities it serves. Mental health services are available at all of the clinics.

Additionally, Salud has a tradition of working with social workers and case managers to address the psychosocial needs of its patients. Research has shown that patients in need of mental health services experience lower relapse rates and have higher follow-up rates when they receive both medical and therapy services in the same clinical environment. Salud is attempting to be responsive to the total health needs of its patients by providing mental and dental services as well as medical services at its clinics.

Medical Services
Salud offers a full spectrum of primary care services at its family practice, adolescent and pediatric clinics including:

Dental Services
A full range of dental services are available at each of the four dental clinics in the Salud system:

Women's Health Services
All of Salud's Family Practice clinics offer pregnancy care and delivery and family planning and gynecological services. In addition, the Brighton Women's Center at our Salud Family Health Center in Brighton offers:

Pediatric Services
Each of the Salud family practice clinics in the system serve adults and children. In addition, there are three Salud Clinics that provide specialized Pediatric Care staffed by pediatricians:

Adolescent Services
There are three specialized adolescent clinics within the Salud system: the "Higher Grounds" Clinic at the Salud Family Health Center in Commerce City, and "New Horizons" at the Salud Family Health Center in Brighton and the evening Young Adult and Teen Clinic (YATC), at the Salud Family Health Center in Fort Collins. Services offered at these clinics include:

Migrant Health
Salud is particularly sensitive to the cultural needs of the migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. Through its mobile health unit, Salud meets the farmworkers in their environment to provide comprehensive medical services. Salud staff integrates into the culture of the migrants as much as possible. Consequently, Salud has established a high degree of trust with not only the farmworkers but also the growers that employ them. Salud further serves the farmworker population by providing outreach to migrant school age and Headstart children with immunization, dental care and medical services.

Other Services
A variety of medical support services and ancillary services are offered in the Salud system. All Salud clinics offer:

• Laboratory
• Access to Pharmacy
• Pregnancy Ultrasound
• Access to X-ray
  
• Mental Health Services
• Hospitalization
• 24-hour access to a health provider by telephone
• Health Education
• Cancer Screening - Colorectal, Breast, Cervical

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