Primary Care is
provided by caring and competent staff through six
accessible locations on the near north and south side of the city of St.
Louis. Services are provided on a sliding fee scale and no one is denied
services due to inability to pay. In 2001, almost 28,000
individual patients were served through the six
Grace Hill sites. Fifty-six
percent of patients served had no health insurance and 39%
were on Medicaid. Of the almost 28,000 patients
served, 39% were children and 36% were
homeless.
Dental
care was provided to 4,183 patients,
resulting in 8,372 encounters at the Grace
Hill and Water
Tower facilities.
OB/GYN physicians, certified nurse
practitioners, and physicians’ assistants provided almost 1,300
women with pre-natal and delivery care. Six hundred and
ninety-two at-risk pregnancies were case managed by community
health nurse teams and medical social workers.
Pediatric Care was provided to 6,611
children and 4,148 immunizations were given.
Grace Hill’s St. Stephen’s
Neighborhood Health Service
served 3,987 public housing residents for over 5,000
encounters.
Grace Hill’s physicians are actively
involved in a leadership capacity with numerous clinical initiatives and
collaborative.
In 2001, two new sites were
opened to better serve our patients. The Grace
Hill South site was opened in February 2001. It is staffed by
bi-lingual clinicians and support staff in order to better serve the
numerous ethnic groups, primarily Hispanic, living in that area.
In September 2001, Grace Hill opened its
newest site in
the St. Patrick Fellowship Center to better serve the homeless, especially
the mentally ill.
Owing to a declining population at the
Cochran Health Center, Cochran patients were transferred to the Grace
Hill site, less than one mile to the North, and the Cochran
site was closed as of September 2001 through ongoing services and
assessment of community needs, Grace Hill continues to provide relevant
health services to meet our neighbor’s needs, and ensuring that limited
resources are optimally deployed based on need.
If
you would like to schedule an appointment with any of our primary care
staff, please call (314) 421-4949.
