A Legacy of Hope and Health
The Healthy Houston Foundation, Healthy Texas, Healthy America dba Healthy Houston is a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation working to improve access to health care for underserved people. Our primary goal is to support the creation of Federally Qualified Health Centers. Federally Qualified Health Centers are nonprofit, community-based clinics that offer preventative, primary care, dental and mental health, laboratory and x-ray, pharmacy, and prenatal and women’s health care services to low-income patients on a sliding scale basis.
Specifically, Healthy Houston offers grants to non-profit clinics, either existing or under development, that offer health care to medically underserved patients. The Foundation may elect to contribute its funds to another foundation of like purpose.
BEING UNINSURED
- More than one million people in the Houston area are uninsured.
- People without insurance are often forced to use overcrowded emergency rooms for primary care.
- One of the primary reasons people are uninsured is the high cost of health insurance.
HOW COMMUNITY CLINICS CAN HELP
- By providing affordable, high quality health care, often on a sliding scale.
- By offering primary and preventative care, dental and mental health services, immunizations, cancer screenings, and more to men, women and children.
- By providing prenatal care and well woman exams and pediatric care.
- By reducing overcrowding in hospital emergency rooms.
- By creating a network of clinics and health care professionals who can work together in the event of a disaster.
Healthy Houston is part of the solution
