St. Thomas Community Health Center participated in the free Health & Wellness Expo hosted by LB Landry-OP Walker College and Career Preparatory High School. Pictured here are District C councilperson Nadine M. Ramsey with our advertising/marketing consultant, Phillip Manuel. St. Thomas Community Health Center appreciates the ability to participate in community events and is honored to work with community members toward improving health!
The Council recognized by proclamation St. Thomas Community Health Center founder and CEO Dr. Donald T. Erwin for his work in providing comprehensive primary care to under-served patients regardless of their financial or insurance situations.
The St. Thomas Community Health Center is a successor to the St. Thomas Health Services Clinic formerly located in the St. Thomas Housing Development. After Hurricane Katrina, the Clinic was closed due to lack of financial and personnel support. The Health Center was established to provide the same services in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Presenting before the Council, Dr. Erwin highlighted the many services provided to patients by the St. Thomas Community Health Center and multiple other centers across New Orleans, including primary care for adult and pediatric patients, women’s health and prenatal services, behavioral health, mammography and eye care. All services are provided regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.
Councilmember Head said, “The St. Thomas Community Health Center has grown into one of New Orleans’ largest and most accessible safety net providers, with six locations expected to serve nearly 45,000 patients this year. Dr. Erwin and his team are committed to providing health care in a cultural competent manner that is of the highest quality to some of the most vulnerable in our community. It was the Council’s great privilege to honor their work today.”
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has identified St. Thomas Community Health Center as a leader in the transformation of health care scheduling and access. Since 2014, St. Thomas CHC has been able to efficiently operate at a 35% increase in appointment capacity and a 25% increase in clinic visits while at the same time reducing patient wait times and increasing overall patient, family, and care team satisfaction. Thanks to the hard work of our team, our smooth scheduling efforts have proven invaluable to our ability to function as a high-quality medical home within the community. You can read the full report here.
Call (504) 529-5558 to make an appointment!
St. Thomas Community Health Center is honored to partner with the Algiers Charter School Association and announce the opening of the new L.B. Landry Community Clinic located inside L.B. Landry – O.P. Walker College and Career Preparatory High School in Algiers.
L.B. Landry Community Clinic is a full-service primary care clinic for adults and children, open from 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM Monday through Friday.
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Call (504) 529-5558 to make an appointment!
St. Thomas Community Health Center was proud to host a Grand Opening event for its new site at Columbia Parc. Patients, staff, funders and supporters gathered together on April 30th to celebrate this exciting event, with Nancy Parker from Fox News as the MC. This new clinic will provide high quality, cost-effective care to the many people in and around the Columbia Parc neighborhood and new mixed-income housing.
We are fortunate and proud to have the support of the following organizations who assisted in making this clinic possible. Those include:
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Thanks to a wonderful friend and donor, Lorraine Johnston, for the shout-out in her recent interview about her new children’s book “Later Tartan Gator”!
Here is a brief excerpt from her interview:
Interviewer: What was the most rewarding part of the experience?
Johnston: “3 things! 1. When I received a box of my books, real books, in a real box, delivered to my home in Scotland – a book that I wrote – amazing feeling to see it in print. 2. When I visited New Orleans in April 2013 to launch the book and visited St Thomas Community Health Center and I could see what an amazing job they do there. I felt that I was doing something ‘useful!’ Something that built my confidence a bit, as I hadn’t felt very ‘useful’ since my diagnosis and since my capabilities lessened.”
Check out her beautiful New Orleans based children’s book, Later Tartan Gator, and the full interview here!