Let’s Talk About Cost-Effective Health Care

From the Office of the CEO, Wellness Pointe • Obstetrics & Gynecology We also oer sports, school, and • Pediatrics pre-employment physicals for families who want Dear Valued Community Families, Friends, and • Family Medicine these services provided in a safe, comfortable Small Business Owners, • Geriatric Care and supportive environment. • Urgent Care One of the best vehicles our community has to • Dental Care (for the whole family) For those small business owners and employers • Behavioral Health working hard every day to stay aoat, who might help lower the cost of core primary care services • Mothers Milk Bank is more community families utilizing Wellness • WIC not be nancially able to oer health and dental Pointe. As a Federally Quali ed Health Center bene ts to your employees, I encourage you to (FQHC), we employ seasoned Board-certi ed contact us to see how Wellness Pointe might clinicians who are experts at providing help your employee families receive the cost cost-eective, medically appropriate medical eective, medically appropriate, professional, and dental services to families with Medicaid, and compassionate medical and dental primary Medicare, Tri-Care, and Commercial insurances. care services they deserve. We also have a variety of programs which, based on income and family size, might help pay for Many of you may not realize that FQHCs arose your family’s needed medical services. We can out of the nation’s social equality movement also help you save on your prescription drug in the 1950s and 1960s to ensure that costs through our 340B pharmacy program, if working class community families you qualify. had equal access to high-quality, cost-eective, and medically We are one of the few health care appropriate primary care systems in East Texas that has on-site services. FQHCs are truly the Eligibility Workers who can help your peoples’ health system as we family apply for Medicaid and other solely exist to serve the State bene ts. We oer WIC services people, are governed for young mothers and families by the people, and for who qualify in order to help their the people who utilize limited dollars stretch a little our services. further. We also oer several Behavioral Health programs designed to help those in need of DID YOU KNOW? overcoming substance abuse, low 51% of our Board of Directors are community people self-esteem, divorce, loneliness, depression, who utilize our health system to ensure we never lose or other life challenges. We oer top-notch touch of who we are here to serve – which is you. health care and social services, including: Let’s Confront Urban Legends About FQHCs

Let me take a moment to clarify some urban URBAN LEGEND: The care provided by FQHCs Our Board, dedicated team, and I invite more legends about Federally Quali ed Health isn’t as high-quality as that provided in other community families to utilize our health system Centers: health systems. because when you do, we’re able to help a FACT: The quality of services provided at growing number of community working families URBAN LEGEND: Only poor people go to FQHCs. Wellness Pointe is equal to the best of similar who also need our services. FACT: Working class (employed) families are the services provided by our fellow health system primary users of Wellness Pointe. partners. We do not oer sub-par or One of the best kept secrets we have in our inappropriate medical services, and FQHCs have community to help ensure our valued community families receive cost-eective URBAN LEGEND: Only providers who couldn’t become this nations primary health care chronic primary care services is Wellness Pointe – your make it somewhere else work in FQHCs. disease “experts” as we were providing high-quality primary care services to working Federally Quali ed Health System! At Wellness FACT: Our health system providers are class families and helping to ght chronic Pointe everything we do is designed to keep Board-certi ed and/or Board eligible. We don’t diseases when it wasn’t socially popular for your family happy and healthy for years to come. hire or retain sub-par clinicians or sta in our health systems to do so. As a result, if you suer health system. from asthma, obesity, diabetes, eye disease, Call us today at 903-758-2610 and let us be your heart disease, substance abuse, high-blood family’s medical and dental home! It has been URBAN LEGEND: FQHCs are free clinics. pressure, and/or are considered an OB/GYN and remains our privilege to be your community FACT: Wellness Pointe is not a free clinic. While high-risk patient, you will be seen by clinical health system. there are legal entities known as free clinics, professional experts with years of clinical Wellness Pointe is not a free clinic, and our services training when you present to our health system In your continued service, are not free. Because we are a FQHC, we oer for these needed services. sliding fee schedules and a multitude of CARL I. WALTERS, II programs to help families pay for the services URBAN LEGEND: FQHCs are government clinics Chief Executive Ocer they need. We are uniquely positioned to help that do little to control health care costs. our community families aord the core primary FQHCs save this country billions of dollars care services they deserve and need to keep FACT: each year by partnering with their local their family healthy. community health care stakeholders to reduce LONGVIEW inappropriate emergency room and urgent care 1107 East Marshall Ave. URBAN LEGEND: FQHCs only see uninsured visits as well as extended and/or unintended people. hospital stays. FQHCs are integrated health care FACT: Wellness Pointe sees (and welcomes) delivery systems, governed by a community patients covered by Medicaid, CHIP, Tri-Care, Board that receives Federal and oftentimes State KILGORE Medicare and most Commercial health and dollars to ensure any community family who 1711 S Henderson Blvd, Suite #400 dental insurances. We are a non-pro t needs a medical home can utilize their services organization that uses the revenues we generate without fear of being treated dierently and/or to help oset the cost of care for those with not treated at all because of their inability or GILMER limited or no ability to pay for their services. Our limited ability to pay. Large pro ts are not our nancial model consists of community families motivator! Being there to provide the primary 602 Titus St, Suite #130 helping other community families stay healthy. care services our community families need is!

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