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Did you know?

CCFHS served 12,763 Patients in 2008
WIC served 588 mothers and
   kids per month.
• RESPONSE assisted 728 individuals in
  dealing with the violence in their lives.

• Family planning helped 853 people.
• Nearly every child grades K-3 received
  Oral Health Services this year.
• Free medication valued at $1,704,183
  was distributed to patients during
  2008 through the patient Assistance
  Programs.

 
CCFHS Participates in Relay For Life
Every year Coos County Family Health Services
(CCFHS) participates in the American Cancer
Society’s Relay for Life. The Relay is a fun, team-
based overnight event that brings communities
together to learn about, celebrate the lives of
those who have battled cancer, remember loved
ones lost to the disease, and raise money for,
the fight against cancer. CCFHS participates in
the Relay to continue the American Cancer
Society’s progress toward a future where
cancer doesn’t take the lives of our friends
and family. For more information, please visit
www.relayforlife.org

CCFHS Receives Federal Stimulus Money
Coos County Family Health Services will receive $200,277 in federal stimulus funds to help it continue to serve the growing number of local residents without health insurance.  The local community health center was one of ten in the state sharing a total of $1.66 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.  The funds are for a two year period.  Adele Woods, CEO of CCFHS said in the current economic downturn, her agency is seeing an increase in clients without insurance.
CCFHS Patient Satisfaction
Survey
Please follow the link to complete the Coos County Family Health Patient Satisfaction Survey so that we can have a better idea of how you feel about the services, the staff, and the medical care that you and/or your child receives. We will use the results of the survey to seek ways to improve our commitment to meet the health care needs of our clients and the community.

Click here to take survey
H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)
The ongoing outbreak of novel influenza A
(H1N1) continues to expand in the United
States and internationally. The CDC expects
that more cases, more hospitalizations and
more deaths from this outbreak will occur over
the coming days and weeks. 

The CDC continues to take aggressive action
to respond to an expanding outbreak caused by
novel H1N1 flu.
The CDC’s response goals are to:

1. Reduce transmission and illness severity, and
2. Provide information to help health care providers, public health officials and the public address the challenges posed by this emergency.

For more information, please visit
www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
The following article written by Adele Woods was featured in Business NH Magazine—September 2009.

Innovation is the Prescription for Rural Health Care
With proposed national healthcare reform looming on the horizon, we must consider the unique needs of NH’s rural areas. For many years, one of the most important issues that rural communities have tried to address is cultivating an adequate, well-trained workforce. The population of NH’s rural communities is older than the state as a whole— 19 percent of Coos County residents are over 65 years old versus 13 percent statewide, according to 2007 state data. And there are fewer people in the workforce with the needed skills to treat them.  Click here for full article.