The city of Toledo is celebrating another dose of economic development this week with the groundbreaking of the Neighborhood Health Association’s (NHA) new community health center, funded with $6.2 million in capital from the Healthy Futures Fund.
The Fund is a broad collaboration led by Morgan Stanley, The Kresge Foundation and LISC to help low-income residents live healthier by connecting affordable housing and health care. To date, the Fund has supported new housing developments with on-site health services, new health centers with programs that target affordable housing residents and other services that help link the two.
Neighborhood Health Association Community Collaboration Luncheon to Follow Groundbreaking for New Medical Clinic
In Toledo, the new $11.4 million NHA facility will not only provide a wide range of primary care services to 16,000 patients per year—almost all of whom are low-income—but will also include a community garden to promote healthy eating, a low-cost pharmacy and a credit union.
The clinic is being built in an area with a 45 percent poverty rate, where families earn just 31 percent of the average median income for Toledo. NHA is working with local organizations to bring financial counseling and related services on-site, as well as to provide outreach and prevention services to nearby low-income housing projects.
“The clinic is designed to connect residents to additional resources that support them in their path to economic security and improved health,” said Denise Scott, LISC executive vice president, who spoke at a local event celebrating community development partnerships.
“The transformation that occurs out of this kind of collaboration creates vibrant neighborhoods where people thrive,” she added.
For Immediate Release
[Toledo, Ohio] – The Neighborhood Health Association (NHA) will hold a community collaboration luncheon, along with the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), to celebrate the groundbreaking of its new medical clinic, Nexus Healthcare, on Tuesday, March 31. The groundbreaking is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. at 1415 Jefferson Ave, and the luncheon will follow at noon in the Belvedere Room of the Toledo Club, 235 14th Street.
The theme of the luncheon is collaboration. The new medical clinic came about through collaboration with LISC, a national community development support organization. At the luncheon, NHA Chief Executive Officer, Doni Miller, and Kim Cutcher, Deputy Director for LISC’s Toledo office, will speak about the new medical clinic. Denise Scott, Executive Vice President, and Anika Gross-Foster, Program Vice President, from the national LISC organization will discuss additional funding opportunities for our community.
Community leaders interested in developing the city’s core neighborhoods will learn about how collaboration and what LISC calls “collective impact” can significantly improve funding for their projects. Collective impact is an effort to bring together a great number of organizations within a city to create a common vision, form goals to work toward this vision, and act together to further these goals.
The speakers will discuss in detail strategies that can be used to make community projects successful.
For Immediate Release:
March 31, 2015
Contacts:
Doni Miller, CEO
The Neighbordhood Health Association
(419) 720-7883 ext. 216