Direct Service
Direct Service distinguishes Providence Little Company of Mary as a leader among California nonprofit hospitals. Designed, implemented and sustained by Community Health Department staff, these highly visible initiatives include:
- Partners For Healthy Kids, a mobile pediatric clinic that has provided free primary care to uninsured children throughout the South Bay since 1994.
- Creating Opportunities for Physical Activity (COPA), an innovative program that addresses the problem of childhood obesity by increasing children's daily physical activity and training classroom teachers and staff to independently lead physical education activities during and after school.
- Ready for School and the Developmental Play Center, a home- and center-based program that engages parents and their young children (birth to 5 years) in age-appropriate play that supports children's physical, cognitive, language and social development.
- Even Start, a family literacy program for parents and young children (birth to 5 years).
- Project Access, a program that facilitates Federally Qualified Health Center patients' access to private specialty care.
- Children's Health Insurance Program, which outreaches, enrolls and retains children at or below 250% federal poverty level in health insurance programs.
- Emergency Department Patient Navigators link uninsured patients served at PLCM's Emergency Departments with community resources and a medical home for ongoing health care.
- Vasek Polak Health Clinic, a primary care clinic for uninsured adults that uses a low-cost, fixed-price delivery model.