Detroit Community Health Connection

Medical services dchc's medical team provides its patients with cutting-edge preventative madicine and comprehensive disease treatment and management. The center treats teens and adults who suffer from asthma, diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, and cardiovascular disease, but is also equipped to treat infectious diseases such as hepatitis, venereal diseases, and tb. Obstetrics and gynecological staff of dchc provides primary care services in addition to prenatal and nutritional counseling. Risk assessment, exams, a full range of tests and screenings, culposcopy and other gynecological procedures are provided on-site. Ob/gyn staff is highly trained and available to deliver competent, sensitive care. The dchc hiv/aids team provides comprehensive primary care, confidential screening, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with hiv/aids. The hiv/aids program is guided, in part, by the advice of the dchc hiv/aids Community advisory board, which includes dchc clients. Family planning service excluding abortion is offered at all dchc Health centers.

Pharmacy to enable dchc patients to follow doctor's orders with ease, an on-site pharmacy offering discounted prescriptions is available. This service allows patients to receive medications from the same facility they receive medical care. Dchc provides prescribtion delivery to all Health centers three times daily for patient convinience.

Dental services in addition to standard medical care services, dchc also offers comprehensive dental care to its patients.at three different locations equipped with the latest technology, dchc patients can receive a wide range of dental services starting from routine oral exams and teeth cleanings to more complex dental procedures such as restoration of teeth, installation of crowns, and bridges, endodontics-root canal surgery and cosmetic caps from broken or chipped tooth.

Behavioral Health the highly trained and experienced social workers offer assistance to adults and teens living with depression, mental illness and drug-addiciton. All dchc care providers approach each patient as a care partner, offering respect and understanding along with quality treatment. In addition, dchc has affiliations with pediatric and adult behavioral Health institutions for more serious Health issues. Other services nutritional counseling, lab services and patient education: in addition to essential Health services, dchc also provides nutritional counseling, Health screenings, counseling in an array of subjects and specialty areas, lab services, referrals and access to educational information. Interpretation and transportaiton: english, spanish and farsi are spoken at our Health centers to cover 95% of our patient population. 1-2% of patients speaking other languages are provided with interpretative services through an outside party. In special circumstances center offers transportation vouchers as well. Medical education: dchc actively participates in medical education at all levels. Center precepts medical students from wayne state university school of medicin, resident docotors in primary care specialty programs from authority Health/ Michigan state university, preventative medicine residents form university of Michigan, rn and master's degree rn students from wayne state university and university of Detroit mercy. Dchc also provides healthcare internships to students from wayne state university, university of Michigan, berkley, cornell, etc.