The Health Foundation of South Florida has recognized Broward Childrens Center and 250 other nonprofit partners in a unique celebration of its latest community health grants.
The Center will use a $20,000 Health Foundation of South Florida grant to provide a wide range of primary care services to more than 350 uninsured children at its Pompano Beach-based Kids Klinic and aboard its mobile medical van. Hundreds of uninsured children and families in South Florida will receive free medical care and health insurance application assistance. The program is an attempt to provide immediate medical care to children to prevent serious illness or disease, while also offering their families the help they need to obtain insurance that can provide regular, sustainable medical care. The Centers pediatrician and nurse practitioners will focus on treating children living in South Florida neighborhoods that contain high numbers of the more than 750,000 Florida children who are eligible but not enrolled in state health care programs. Families will receive a free consultation with a medical professional and instruction from trilingual staff in how to apply for a range of programs and services designed to support child health and economic stability. Visitors will also be able to apply for services on-the-spot via a computer kiosk linked directly to the Department of Children and Families and staffed by Center experts.
