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We are joined by Doctor Carrie Powell. She's president and chief executive officer of the Neighborhood Health Center. First, let's talk about this logo you designed. It's beautiful. Oh, and, and thank you for commenting. We put a lot of work and effort in designing this logo and everything has meaning. We wanted to give a home because we wanted to know that neighborhood is your medical home and we take care of the entire family. And we also used and we picked the colors were specifically picked for their um for their warmth for things about uh good health so all of that is um designed on purpose and the heart is right in the center of the stethoscope also because we are we we are giving like warmth and we're treating the whole person and the spirit of the person so for for neighborhood health we we try to. To comprehensively take care of our patients. It's not just about a visit it's about taking care of the entire person and that drove us to um have this uh logo here. You just opened, as we talked about at the end of the first segment, a special service for women, a special machine that you now have. Well, we're gonna be, um, it should be opening soon, but we're working to get a 3D mammography, um, a mammogram machine on site. So we're close to opening that up. We just opened our full ultrasound suite which we can get full um ultrasound services. So when we are fully, um, when it's fully opened, we'll be able to get a 3D mammogram machine. And also you would all be able to get a breast ultrasound along with that along with other um ultrasound services and cervical cancer screenings which we have video. Tell us about that. So um for neighborhood we we we we screened for all cancer screenings so for women's health and for cervical Cancer Month, we did a fair where we um educated women about cervical cancer and get. The Pap smears which you should get your mammogram um Pap smears with your GYN and so we we always put tables out so that we could reach out to the community so they can understand what they should be, um, how they should be taking care of themselves and as women for us to get cervical cancer screenings and also for us to get mammogram screenings and so these are just part of what we do on a regular basis is to make sure we um outreach to the community.

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You're looking at video of give kids a smile day with the Neighborhood Health Center. Doctor Carrie Powell will tell us exactly what we're looking at. Uh, this is one of the, the 11 of the events that we are so proud of. We host this event annually where we provide, uh, free screenings, dental screenings to the the children in our community. So anyone that signs up can have their children's teeth screened and if they need to be cared for, of course we are, we have a full dental department. That then enrolls them in the department to provides the services they need so it's, it is a um something that we are very proud of and everybody volunteers to screen the the children during that day and also my staff in the community we all come together to make sure the children have their dental screenings. Do you find a lot of families and kids take advantage of this? Oh absolutely we are full every year and it looks like it gets bigger and bigger and during that time we also take take um. Advantage of letting the family know about health care and also exposing even the adults to dental um care because a lot of times when you don't have insurance the last thing you think of taking care of is your dental health and oral health is the beginning of the entire body's health so we um are definitely use these events to capture families to be able to bring them in to take care of them and screen them as much as possible and then enroll them in if they do not have a medical home enroll them into the health center to take care of them. And as we said, she is Doctor Carrie Powell. She's the president and chief executive officer with the Neighborhood Health Center. Remind people where your centers are. Um, absolutely our main center is in Plainfield. We are on 1700 Myrtle Avenue in Plainfield, New Jersey. We also have a second site in Elizabeth, New Jersey. At 1841st Street and we're on the 2nd floor in Elizabeth and we have a school-based site that's the Cardinal Health Place and that is on Plainfield High School's parking lot and we provide school-based services as well and we have another school service that is in the middle school in Plainfield as well.

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President and CEO Dr. Kerri Powell joined News 12’s Della Crews to discuss their mission.

Spotlight New Jersey: Neighborhood Health Center

President and CEO Dr. Kerri Powell joined News 12’s Della Crews to discuss their mission.

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