Heartland Health Outreach
Fact Sheet
A Heartland Alliance Partner
Summary
Heartland Health Outreach provides primary health care, mental health and addiction services, and oral health care to homeless and low-income Chicagoans at various sites throughout the city and through street outreach.
Organization
Heartland Health Outreach is the health care partner of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, a service-based human rights organization that provides housing, health care, human services and human rights protections to more than 72,000 impoverished people annually.
Programs
Primary Care
Provides primary care at its community health center in Uptown and satellite sites in homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drop-in centers as well as through street outreach. Heartland Health Outreach works with other community health centers to provide health care, health education, and counseling to impoverished people throughout Chicago.
Mental Health Care and Addiction Services
With nationally known model programs, Heartland Health Outreach provides innovative and culturally appropriate mental health services to the most poor and vulnerable people in the city. Daytime drop-in centers, case management services, and residential programs help people stay out of mental hospitals and off the streets. Heartland Health Outreach also offers specialized mental health care to refugees.
Oral Health Care
Heartland Health Outreach provides dental services at five locations throughout the city to people with HIV, AIDS, or TB, as well as people who are homeless, very low income, or senior citizens.
Multicultural Services
Heartland Health Outreach trains providers locally and nationally to practice culturally appropriate health care.
Staff
More than 200 staff with expertise in areas such as primary medical care, mental health, dentistry, community health, and social work.
Volunteers
More than 150 people volunteer.
Funding
More than 60% of Heartland Health Outreach funding is from the federal government. The balance is from city and state grants and contracts, and gifts from individuals, foundations, organizations and corporations.
Contact
Bindu Batchu, Director of Communications, 312-660-1314.
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