STRONG – Strong Area Health and Dental Center will hold a food drive in celebration of National Community Health Center Week from August 11 – 22.
The health and dental center will accept nonperishable food from members of the community Monday through Friday during the second week of August. All food donations will be brought to the Strong Food Pantry.
Additionally, a Summer Safety table will be available in the waiting area with information focusing on tick and Lyme disease awareness, skin cancer prevention, water safety and secondary drowning, animal bites, fish hooks, and identifying poison ivy, oak and sumac.
Strong Area Health and Dental Center is located at 177 North Main Street in Strong. For more information, call (207) 684-4010 or visit StrongCHC.org.
Each year the second week in August is dedicated to celebrating the services and contributions of community health centers. This year’s theme is America’s Health Centers: Local Engines for Healthier Communities. National Health Center Week showcases the importance of these facilities and the impact they have on their communities, providing access to affordable, high quality, cost effective health care to medically vulnerable and underserved people throughout the United States.
Strong Area Health and Dental Center is a practice of HealthReach Community Health Centers, a system of eleven federally qualified health centers in Central and Western Maine. Dedicated providers deliver high quality health care to citizens in over 80 rural communities. To ensure access for everyone, HealthReach accepts Medicare, MaineCare and major insurances. In addition, we offer an Affordable Care Program to uninsured and underinsured residents and assist with applications for other programs that help with the cost of health care and medications including the new Health Insurance Marketplace. A private, non-profit organization with a 39-year history, HealthReach is funded by patient fees, grants and individual donations.
