Stories of Impact

The Lincoln Community Health Center Foundation has awarded a $100,000 unrestricted grant to Lincoln Community Health Center, Inc. These funds will be used by the Lincoln Community Health Center, as needed, for efforts in responding to COVID-19 as well as other direct patient services.

“On behalf of the Lincoln Community Health Center Foundation, we are extremely pleased to make this significant financial contribution to Lincoln,” said Board Chair Rev. Dr. Michael D. Page. “This donation would not be possible without the philanthropic support of our donors and sponsors who helped make this gift possible.”

“We want to thank the Lincoln Community Health Center Foundation for this very generous gift during a most challenging time for the health center,” said Philip A. Harewood, Lincoln Chief Executive Officer. “The Foundation has been a wonderful partner since its formation and we are grateful for their ongoing financial support.”

The total funding provided by the Foundation to Lincoln Community Health Center now exceeds $250,000.

In April, 2020, The LCHC Foundation awarded a grant of $10,000 to Lincoln Community Health Center to assist with the COVID-19 emergency response. Lincoln has incurred many unplanned expenses such as supplies, PPE, temporary construction to screen patients and staff prior to entering the building, and others. Lincoln is also facing a loss of revenue due to much fewer patient visits.

“Our priority goal is the safety of staff, patients, and families,” says Dr. Howard Eisenson, Lincoln Chief Medical Officer. “For example, patients are screened over the phone to triage mild illness, and if they have COVID-19 symptoms they are directed to the ED. Lincoln is practicing social distancing so the building is less populated. We are now able to offer COVID-19 drive up testing as well,” says Dr. Eisenson.

An April survey of North Carolina’s community health centers found 44 percent have walk-up or drive-through testing for COVID-19, and 82 percent of health centers have the ability to test patients. The findings demonstrate the resilience and adaptability of CHC’s working under a host of challenges as frontline responders to the pandemic.

“A special thank you to all our healthcare heroes at Lincoln, and to our many donors and sponsors for their generous support,” says Dr. Michael Page, LCHCF Board Chairperson.

In 2019, the Lincoln Community Health Center Foundation awarded a grant of $40,000 to Lincoln Community Health Center. $20,000 of this grant will be designated to a new program at Lincoln called Centering Parenting.

Centering Parenting is a model of care in which well‐child care is provided in a group setting. In the Centering model, new moms, partners, support persons and their same‐age infants meet together with their healthcare providers and other parents who are facing similar challenges and milestones. In the group, key topics including stress management, nutrition and weight, and family planning are discussed. Centering Parenting fosters a safe and supportive environment to ask questions and creates lifelong bonds between families. Under the direction of Oveta McIntosh-Vick, MD, Chief of Pediatrics, Lincoln will implement Centering Parenting beginning in January, 2019 in conjunction with the Centering Healthcare Institute.

“We are very excited to be selected as a Centering site,” according to Dr. McIntosh-Vick. “This is an important program for new moms and their babies who come to Lincoln for their primary care, and hopefully to introduce new families to Lincoln who may not be aware of all the services we provide.”

“This gift has raised the total grant contributions to Lincoln to over $140,000.” says Carolyn E. Henderson, Board Chairperson of the Lincoln Community Health Center Foundation. “We are grateful and proud of giving back to Lincoln through the generosity of our sponsors and individual donors in our community.”