Council gets $1,000 for health clinic with grant

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Council gets $1,000 for health clinic with grant

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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 00:00

When it comes to helping others, Ark Insurance Group, a provider of Allstate insurance, is not only good at their profession but recognizes the benefits of social services to our community as well.
Working through the Allstate Foundation, Dale Revels, president of Ark Insurance Group, assisted the Osceola County Council on Aging in obtaining a $1,000 grant to be used for the health clinic. The grant will help purchase supplies, equipment and other items needed to operate a health clinic.
“Most people aren’t familiar with the council’s health clinic but it does an incredible job in helping the disadvantaged residents in our community,” Revels said. “If it weren’t for this heaven sent clinic and its staff, thousands of residents would go untreated for primary, secondary and chronic illness management diseases.”
The council’s clinic is in the Barney E. Veal Center, 700 Generation Point, and is open by appointment Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. With the help of more than 50 volunteer physicians, Dr. Dawn Hill, nursing director Chris Hougland and their staff of nurses and case managers served more than 2,000 patients last year and more than 700 patients consider the council as their primary physician.
The health clinic has been responsible for diagnosing diabetes, breast cancer, tumors, respiratory illnesses and other conditions threatening the well being of our community. Residents 18 years and older without health insurance and at 150 percent of poverty level are eligible to receive services at the clinic at no cost other than medications and lab work.
“We’re so very grateful for Mr. Revel’s assistance in securing this grant,” Hill said. “Our work becomes so much more effective when we can focus on saving lives, not raising money.”
To volunteer or for further information on the Council’s Health Clinic, contact 407-483-1494 or visit us online at www.osceolagenerations
.org..