Community Health Northwest Florida (formerly Escambia Community Clinics Inc.), a leading Federally Qualified Health Center committed to making affordable healthcare accessible for everyone, announced the establishment of its philanthropic entity, the Community Health Northwest Florida Foundation.
Why this matters: The 501(c)(3) charitable organization embodies Community Health’s absolute belief that all human beings have a basic right to healthcare. The Foundation primarily supports patients by providing prescription assistance, diagnostic testing and program support.
“The Community Health Northwest Florida Foundation was born out of Community Health’s legacy of delivering access to quality care and a desire to advance health equity by reducing the limits and barriers faced by those in underserved communities,” said Community Health Northwest Florida CEO Chandra Smiley.
Dig Deeper: For more than 30 years, Community Health Northwest Florida has been putting healthcare within reach of the many people in our community who need it.
Opened in 1992 as Escambia Community Clinics, a medical home for those most in need, ECC was designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center in 2007 by the Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2018, Escambia Community Clinics rebranded and changed its name to Community Health Northwest Florida. The name change stemmed from the desire to better align the health centers’ identity in the community with its mission to provide accessible, affordable healthcare to those in need.
Community Health Northwest Florida now has grown from a small outpatient primary care clinic to nearly 20 multi-service locations and four full-service pharmacies, providing access to affordable, comprehensive healthcare services to more than 53,000 people throughout Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. Anyone can take advantage of Community Health’s quality programs, whether they have insurance or not.
“We look forward to leveraging this Foundation to facilitate the advancement of quality healthcare and closing care gaps to ensure that everyone has access to medical services regardless of,” says Smiley. “For anyone who thought healthcare was unattainable, we put healthcare within reach.”
To learn more, visit healthcarewithinreach.org.