Umma Community Clinic

Primary health - University Muslim Medical Association (Umma) is a full-service Medical home for over 15,000 adults and children living in south los angeles. Umma supports its patients with maintaining their health by providing primary healthcare services. Umma's healthcare services include routine prevention screenings, immunizations, mat treatment, prenatal care, and wellness evaluations. In 2023, Umma provided 26,127 primary care and enabling visits, 33% of which were conducted via telehealth modality of care. 57% of our patients live below the poverty line. 82% are medi-caMedicalal insured, and 17% are uninsured.behavioral health - our team of case managers and therapists provided comprehensive behavioral health services at both of our Clinic locations, including individual and family counseling, case management, substance use treatment, grief counseling, chronic disease prevention classes, and diabetes education. We completed 2,813 behavioral health and substance use disorder visits in 2023. Dental services - Umma opened its first dental office Clinic in april of 2022 on the john c. fremont high school campus. The four-room dental Clinic is intended to draw from Umma's existing patient population with the intent of creating dental homes for those patients who have not been able to access dental care. In 2023 Umma provided 3,638 dental care visits to 1,416 patients. Food insecurity initiative - for the last 6 years Umma has hosted the fremont food fair as part of our food insecurity initiative. In november 2022, Umma expanded its food fair to two additional lausd partner schools so that Umma now distributes food on a weekly basis to our south los angeles Community members. This program provides fresh fruits and vegetables to more than 150 families each week. Umma also serves as a distribution hub for 20 local Community organizations who pick up fresh produce for their local communities. In 2023, we distributed 468,220 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables with 39,390 individuals receiving food. We are grateful for our partnership with food forward who makes this work possible.black visions of wellness - black visions of wellness (bvow) is a program designed to support african/ african american communities by providing access to traditional and non-traditional care. We strengthen african and african-american communities through services that encourage physical health, mental well-being and recovery while bringing cultural awareness and appreciation of the mind, body and soul. We aim to address chronic health conditions, substance use problems, trauma, depression, and stress. Student health leaders program. We help to inspire future generations to serve as peer-health advocates. Our student health leaders program is geared towards engaging and empowering john c. fremont high school youth through health education and campus-wide campaigns to promote the services available at our Umma teen Clinic and foster a healthier Community. Student health leaders attended weekly meetings, conducted peer health presentations, tabled at health-related or school events, and led our teen Clinic talks with the student Community. With support from our partners at the los angeles trust for children's health, student health leaders completed monthly health education campaigns in the following topic areas: hpv, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, oral health, wellness & adolescent substance use prevention (wasup) and teen Clinic services. In addition, student health leaders have collaborated with kaiser permanente school of medicine (kpsom) students through a mentorship program where they learned valuable research practices and created poster presentations for their designated health topics.