In 2021, JAMHI Health and Wellness earned designation as a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike, more commonly known as a community health center, by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA). Being a ‘look-alike’ means JAMHI meets all the HRSA requirements, but does not receive Federal award funding.
Since the nation’s first health centers opened in 1965, the expansion of the federally supported health center system to over 1,400 organizations has created an affordable healthcare option for more than 29 million people across America. Health centers help increase access to crucial primary care by reducing barriers such as cost, lack of insurance, distance, and language for their patients. In doing so, health centers provide substantial benefits to communities and the entire health care system.
JAMHI Health & Wellness Salmon Creek Clinic:
Provides highly efficient and cost-effective care, generating savings for Southeast Alaska’s health care system.
Increases access to timely primary care; this reduces costlier, avoidable emergency department visits and hospital stays.
Delivers a broad array of primary and preventive care services, including screening, diagnosis, and management of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, asthma, heart and lung disease, depression, cancer, and HIV/AIDS.
Reduces mortality, health disparities, and risk of low birth weight.
Offers additional services, including transportation, translation, after-hours availability, and health education, to ensure patients receive the care they need.
JAMHI Salmon Creek Clinic's primary care services are available to ANYONE in the community. Services are comprehensive and culturally competent with demonstrably high quality. Our primary care services work closely with Genoa Healthcare to provide full-service, integrated pharmacy access, which was created to deliver health care to Juneau’s most vulnerable populations, including individuals experiencing homelessness, seasonal workers, residents of public housing, and veterans from Southeast Alaska.
Like all JAMHI Health & Wellness services, primary care services at Salmon Creek Clinic are offered at an affordable rate. All services are provided regardless of an individual’s ability to pay, and all are offered on a sliding fee scale.
As Southeast Alaska’s FQHC Look-Alike, JAMHI Health & Wellness provides a full array of comprehensive services to anyone in need, often with same-day access. These services are trauma-informed, emphasizing recovery, wellness, physical health, and whole-person service integration. For a complete list of services or to learn how we can help you on your path to recovery, health & wellness, call JAMHI Health & Wellness Salmon Creek Clinic at 907-463-3303.
Learn more about FQHCs with this fact sheet from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
Learn more about HRSA here.