Lower Lights Christian Health Center

OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER MOVING FORWARD

Lower Lights Christian Health Center’s (LLCHC) commitment to our mission and standard of excellence coupled with the commitment to meet the community’s health care needs has created a necessity to expand our physical space. Our current challenges include:

Increasing levels of uninsured/underinsured.
It is well known that the current state of health care in the U.S. is broken. Many people are either unable to afford insurance or their jobs cannot provide health insurance for them. This problem is only increasing.
Increasing complexity of medical, behavioral health, and spiritual needs.
Over 50% of the patients seen at LLCHC have a substance abuse and/or mental health issue in addition to multiple chronic medical conditions. Effective, comprehensive care requires a team of multidisciplinary providers and ancillary services.
An outdated, inadequate facility that is impairing our ability to deliver efficient, effective care of the highest quality.
Our current health center site is 2,800 square feet. The layout and the small facility prevent us from growing any further. Our administrative offices were moved to a church a block away so that we could use every available space for patient services. Providers are only able to have 2 exam rooms and need 3. This has a negative impact on our providers’ efficiency and decreases the amount of patients that can be seen. Our patients and staff do not have the minimum space and privacy needed to function effectively. We have pushed the current facility beyond its maximum use.

Lower Lights Christian Health Center (LLCHC) has developed a comprehensive strategy to incorporate medical care, behavioral health care, spiritual care, and other wrap around supportive services under one roof. Pivotal to the plan’s success is the creation of a state-of-the-art community health center that allows for expansion of services and future growth.

To achieve this, we are undertaking a building project in a 48,000 square foot abandoned building in Franklinton. We will immediately redevelop 15,000 square feet into a health center. We have already raised half of the cost of the project through various gifts, grants, and financing. The rest will be raised through additional financing and a capital campaign. This building project will improve the quality of LLCHC care, enhance the quantity of available services, and expand the depth or scope of these services. Ultimately, this will improve the health of individuals and the community at large. This will also secure sufficient space for LLCHC’s future growth and endeavors.

Key components include:

Increasing exam rooms from our current 6 to 16. This allows for growth in the number of providers and new patients. This also improves provider efficiency.
Increased behavioral health space allowing for increased much needed services.
2 dental opportunities providing a brand new much needed service
Laboratory
In house Pharmacy also allowing a new service which will allow enhanced access to medications for all patients.
Increased capacity for spiritual care services
Patient education room
Community/Meeting room space
Repurposing an abandoned building increases community development on behalf of those we serve and those who need our services.
Securing a site that will allow for continual growth and expansion of LLCHC over the next 15-20 years.
Enhanced and expanded services with greater efficiencies that will further LLCHC’s revenue streams thus adding to our sustainability.

This project is not about simply having a bigger building, but about continuing to care for those that desperately need our services. It is about our mission, and our call, to bring the hope and healing love of Christ to our neighbors in Franklinton.

“I was sick and you took care of me”. Matthew 25:36 NRSV