THE GRAND JUNCTION COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE MODEL: Low Cost, High Quality, Near-Universal Care

Grand Junction has shown the country how a community can solve its own health care problems without billions of dollars in wasted pork. By working together, providers in Grand Junction and the surrounding area emphasize primary care and prevention. They cover nearly everyone. They conduct peer reviews to see if doctors generally choose proven treatments. The solution is considered “home grown” and is based on physician leadership.

Other communities have created local clinics that service everyone – the under and uninsured as well as those with health insurance – providing everything from free immunizations to screening and semi-urgent care. Check out Steamboat’s Visiting Nurse’s Association or Custer County’s Medical Clinic. These are creative solutions, state and community based, to the problem of low cost effective health care.

Finally, let’s talk about how churches and communities help the sick, just naturally. We are good folks at heart, and we always lend a hand.

• How does your community address its health care needs?
• Tell us a story about how neighbors help neighbors when there is illness;
• How does your church community address health care?
  
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