Coalition Members

Central Mississippi Civic Improvement Association, Inc. d/b/a Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center (JHCHC) was incorporated in August 1970 as a nonprofit 501C (3) organization to engage in planning and development of comprehensive health services for residents of poor communities in Jackson, Mississippi and surrounding areas. The mission of Jackson-Hinds is to provide quality comprehensive primary and preventive health care and social services to the communities of Central Mississippi with a commitment to serving the uninsured and underinsured citizens of Copiah, Hinds and Warren counties.  Jackson-Hinds has a total of thirty-one operating medical sites – including thirteen school-based clinics and three medical mobile units - provides primary medical, dental, optometric, pharmaceutical, behavioral and mental health, women’s health, and social services to more than 50,000 unduplicated users in the tri-county Jackson-Hinds service area.  Specialty services offered include Cardiology, Psychiatry, Occupational Therapy and Podiatry.  These services are offered on the sliding fee scale in order that low-income patients have access with the removal of the barrier due to cost.  Jackson-Hinds is one of three organizations in Mississippi that has the Healthy Start Initiative:  Eliminating Health Disparities in Perinatal Health grant funding from the   U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.  JHCHC is also a certified Centering Pregnancy site.  The activities provided by these programs seek to help reduce preterm births, infant mortality and low birthweights among the participants.

 

Founded in 1979, Aaron E. Henry Community Health Services Center, Inc., is a private nonprofit corporation, administered by a fifteen (15) member Board of Directors.  AEH’s mission is to improve the health of people in the Mississippi Delta and Delta-Hills communities by increasing access to comprehensive primary health care and supportive services and stimulating economic development. The targeted service area includes Coahoma, Quitman, Tunica, Panola, Tate, and Tallahatchie Counties.  AEH targets its services to persons of all ages and for all life cycles.  An estimated 95% are uninsured and underserved families and children living in poverty, served on a sliding fee basis and regardless of inability to pay.  The corporation operates 11 sites in six counties, which includes a separate finance/transit facility, an administrative complex with optometry and wellness center, four freestanding clinics (Clarksdale, Batesville, Tunica and Coldwater), three school-based clinics (Coahoma, Marks, and Tunica), and two mobile medical clinics serving multiple school and community sites. All six counties in the service area are listed as Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) and Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) for primary care access, dental health care and mental health. It is among the most impoverished community in the nation with census data showing over 30% of the population below 100% of the Federal Poverty Level and over 60% below 200% of the FPL.

 

Greater Meridian Health Clinic, Inc., a non-profit federally qualified health center founded in 1986, provides primary and preventative health care for the medically underserved residents of Kemper, Lauderdale, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, and Winston counties in Mississippi.  The health center operates six free-standing sites and a mobile unit, Mobile Access to Care (MAC), to serve isolated, rural parts of the service area. The health center’s mission is to provide quality affordable primary care services in a safe environment that preserves human dignity with cultural sensitivity.

 

Dr. Arenia G. Mallory Community Health Center DBA Mallory Community Health Center (MCHC) is a federally qualified health center that serves the medically underserved residents of Carroll, Holmes, Madison, and Leflore counties in central Mississippi. The mission of Dr. Arenia C. Mallory Community Health Center, Inc. (Mallory CHC) is to provide high quality, customer oriented and cost effective healthcare services in a safe and accessible environment to all persons of Holmes, Carroll, Madison, Leflore Counties and surrounding communities. There is a shortage of primary care, dental care, and mental health services in the service area. All service area counties are designated as Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) and hold a combination of Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations for primary care, dental, and mental health care. MCHC operates six permanent sites throughout the service area in the towns of Durant, Tchula, Lexington, Canton, and Greenwood, as well as a mobile van site based in Lexington which provides services to schools in the area. Services provided directly by MCHC include general primary medical care, screenings, emergency and after-hours coverage, voluntary family planning, immunizations, well child services, gynecology, prenatal/ intrapartum/ postpartum care, preventive dental, case management, eligibility assistance, health education, outreach, transportation, mental health services, nutrition, and additional enabling/supportive services.

 

Southeast Mississippi Rural Health Initiative, Inc. was formally organized in May 1979 for the purpose of improving the health status of the residents of a predominantly rural area of southeast Mississippi. The health center has a total of 17 clinic sites that serve the Pine belt area and the surrounding communities, providing access to much needed health care. An additional 22 school clinics are also listed in SeMRHI’s scope of services.  Counties served are:  Covington, Lamar, Perry, and Forrest.