Celebrating 20 years of HealthReach Caring for the Underserved

From the Libertyville Review………..

A festive celebration was hale on April 21, 2012, at the Ivanhoe Country Club, marking the 20th anniversary of HealthReach, Lake County’s free medical clinic.
One hundred thirty guests enjoyed cocktails, dinner, dancing and a variety of entertainment options including a Live Auction, Fund-a-Need Auction and Champagne Diamond Raffle. The raffle of a [...]

HealthReach Celebrates 20 years in Lake County

For 20 years, HealthReach has been serving the uninsured population in Lake County, IL.  In 2011, HealthReach had over 18,000 patient visits and filled over 28,000 prescriptions for the uninsured.  The healthcare safety net in Lake County has never been more necessary.  Of Lake County’s 703,462 residents, 12% are medically uninsured and 6% live in [...]

HealthReach Top 3 Finalist

The HealthReach Board of Directors is thrilled to announce that the volunteer physicians and dentists of HealthReach have been recognized by Congressman Robert Dold as “A Top Three Finalist” in his annual 10th Congressional District Leadership Award. He received hundreds of submitted nominations. The HealthReach Board submitted the nomination for our steadfast volunteer professionals. The [...]

20th Anniversary Gala

SAVE THE DATE
HealthReach 20th Anniversary Gala
 Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 6PM
Ivanhoe Country Club
Mundelein, Il
 
Cocktails, Dinner, Dancing and Live Auction

HealthReach receives $50,000 donation from Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital

HealthReach receives a $100,000 Grant

from the Abbott Fund.  Monies will be used towards our Medical and Pharmacy Program.

2011 Spring Gala- A Big Success

The HealthReach Board of Directors sponsored the annual spring gala which featured a Kentucky Derby Theme.  On May 7, over 110 friends of HealthReach gathered for an afternoon of charitable wagering and auctions. The profit of $43,000 was a record for this event.  An anonymous donor matched $15,000 of these proceeds for a grand total [...]

HealthReach 2010 Accomplishments

2010 was a year of continued service diversification and growth for HealthReach. Highlights and accomplishments include:
· Selected as the Fiscal Agent and lead organization for the Illinois Free Clinics Association statewide planning project
Served as a co-chair of the Lake County not for profit sector leadership task force resultingin a formal $100,000 request for a proposal [...]

Educational Partnerships

HealthReach strives to provide a high quality educational environment for student interns from a variety of institutions to learn about healthcare delivery to medically underserved communities while providing much needed operating support to our clinics and pharmacy. Over the years, several of these student interns have returned to HealthReach either as a volunteer or as [...]

Acute Care and Midlevel Practitioner Program

In January 2010, HealthReach opened its new Acute Care / Midlevel Practitioner program. This program is the result of direct patient feedback that HealthReach waiting times for sick call appointments were too long to be effective and that community access to acute care services for non emergency illness was extremely limited for uninsured persons with [...]

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