Happy New Year 2016!
We welcome you to join us in making 2016 an even better year for all of us in our personal health and in our relationships with our families, friends, neighbors, and co-workers, as well as in learning how to live meaningful lives of service to those around us! His Branches Health Services is looking forward to continued growth, and we’re counting on your support and prayer along the way as we: work more closely together as teams to meet your needs. grow our Patient Centered Medical Home and make it even more “home-like.” learn more about the advanced capabilities of our new...
Read MoreFQHC Investigations
To FQHC and beyond? As some of you may know, His Branches Health Services (HBHS) is a Community Health Center (also called a “Diagnostic & Treatment Center” or “D&TC”) licensed by New York State to provide quality care to underserved individuals and families in Rochester. This designation enables our Board of Directors to oversee not only the character of the care we provide but its quality as well. Along with carrying out a number of quality assurance initiatives, including those mandated by ongoing Meaningful Use, Patient Centered Medical Home, and...
Read MoreHBHS Update
Thanks to your ongoing support we’re in a season of active growth and reorganization at His Branches Health Services to improve the quality of the family medical care we provide, and we’re excited about the future! With our Care Manager and new, more robust electronic medical records software we’re already learning more comprehensive ways to follow and provide preventative care for patients at risk for diabetes, hypertension and other threatening conditions. The old adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” really comes alive when you can clearly identify where that ounce of...
Read MoreUpgrading to Medent
Get ready! After months of planning and extensive preparation, we’re on the verge of converting over from the Electronic Health Record (EHR) that we’ve been using for the past 10+ years to a more robust system called Medent. The decision to change was made last spring after months of prayer and research into our future needs for a more sophisticated system to handle the increasing patient care requirements of our Patient Centered Medical Home as well as the complexities of clinic billing. For the past 7 months we’ve been working extensively behind the scenes with both our...
Read MoreFocus on Missions
Focus On Missions Are you a health care professional? If so, please consider setting aside the date and signing up now for the MCCF Winter Missions Breakfast coming up on Saturday, January 24th, from 9-11 am at the Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. We’re looking forward to some inspiring presentations (see list below) so mark your calendars and respond now using the MCCF RSVP page. Drs. Elizabeth & Ethan Helm (Family Medicine & Pediatrics) – Bangladesh Dr. Ellen Dailor (Anesthesiology) – Shisong Hospital, Cameroon Paul Violanti, NP (Jericho Road...
Read MoreGratitude
Christmas card received from a grateful patient: “The Lord has brought me through the “Valley of the Shadow of Death” into Light & Life. He has used you very significantly and the ministry of His Branches. May the Lord continue to use you to bring Light & Life to the Arnett neighborhood and the Rochester area. “I thank the Lord for you often. “Happy Holidays and a Most joyous Christmas Celebration. Where would we be without our Victorious Savior, the Eternal God and Everlasting King of Kings !!” We thank God also for the privilege of serving...
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