DHIC Partners With Advance Community Health to Launch “Healthcare At Home” Initiative

Helping our residents achieve long-term success is one of the most important components of our mission. Our Resident Services team ensures that residents in our communities have access to opportunities, education, and resources to help enhance their quality of life. 

Thanks to our partnership with Advance Community Health, it’s now easier for residents at The Village at Washington Terrace and Beacon Ridge to access convenient healthcare services. As the area’s only Federally Qualified Health Center, Advance Community Health is a nonprofit organization focused on serving communities whose residents have historically experienced barriers to receiving care. 

We’ve partnered with Advance Community Health in the past, hosting monthly health talks at Meadowcreek Commons and now we’re partnering with them again through our Healthcare At Home initiative to bring mobile healthcare services to residents. 

Once a month, the Advance Community Health mobile healthcare vehicle will visit The Village at Washington Terrace and Beacon Ridge, providing primary care services like annual physicals right on-site. 

Manager of Resident Services, LaTonya Mckoy, explains, “This goes beyond providing basic services and is truly a primary care solution. Now, residents with chronic illnesses like diabetes and high blood pressure, which plague the Black community, can receive primary care service right in the parking lot each month.”

The mobile vehicle includes two private examination rooms as well as lab services that can be processed on-site. Each month, Advance Community Health will offer eight appointment slots at each site, which residents can sign up for ahead of time. 

To officially launch this initiative and introduce the Advance Community Health mobile vehicle, we hosted a kickoff event at The Village at Washington Terrace and Beacon Ridge where residents had the chance to ask questions, tour the vehicle, and schedule healthcare appointments. We’re proud to announce that all appointment slots for the first month were filled at each location during the kickoff events. 

“From transportation to money or language barriers, there are a number of factors influencing a person’s access to health care. Our goal has always been to prioritize the unique needs of our community and eliminate as many barriers to care as possible, and our mobile health partnership with DHIC allows us to do just that,” explains Advance Community Health’s Director of Marketing and Community Relations and current DHIC Board Member, Samone Bullock Dillahunt. “This program eliminates the need for transportation or taking time away from work, all the patients have to worry about is showing up and we do the rest! That is work we’re incredibly proud of!”

The Healthcare At Home program accepts insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare. It also offers services to uninsured residents. The mobile vehicle visits The Village at Washington Terrace on the first Tuesday of every month and Beacon Ridge on the third Tuesday of every month.