Getting sufficient health care is a concern to people from all walks of life, and people who are from underrepresented groups can have challenges in making sure the important people in their family get medical treatment.
This What's The Frequency episode delves into a key piece of health care services in Siouxland, with the Siouxland Community Health Center that is located in downtown Sioux City. The goal is to meet the unmet health care needs of some of the most underserved area people.
Siouxland Community Health Center began as a small clinic in 1992 with a small staff. Some years ago its leaders built a new state of the art building that covers an entire block along Nebraska Street between 10th and 11th streets.
The health center is a Federally Qualified Health Center that was founded as a collaboration between local hospitals UnityPoint (then St. Luke’s Hospital) and MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center (which was then called Marian Health Center).
The federal government funded the first neighborhood health centers in the 1960s. Since then, the Health Center Program has grown to become a key part of the nation’s health care system. And Siouxland got its center, with Siouxland Community Health Center.
Additionally, there has been a change in the top management post of the health center, as Mari Kaptain-Dahlen has retired after many years, and the new interim CEO is Andrea Buckley.
On this What’s The Frequency episode, we hear from two guests from Siouxland Community Health Center, with Interim CEO Andrea Buckley, plus Neil Bartholomew, who is the treasurer for the center’s board of directors.
Click on the audio link above to hear the entire show.
*What's The Frequency, Episode 25.
