Wellness Program

After years of going to doctors who really didn’t care about me and receiving treatments that never fully worked, I finally found the medical care I needed through the Center for Black Women’s Wellness.  Their genuine love, support and continuous follow-up helped me to lower my high blood pressure and high cholesterol, lose more than 25 pounds, and establish a healthy lifestyle to keep me active in my child care business-- All this without health insurance!

- Deborah Gresham, CBWW Client

The Wellness Program strives to broaden awareness of the many health issues affecting black women; encourage change in personal behaviors to prevent unnecessary illnesses; and provide preventive health care and early detection and treatment of conditions before health problems arise.

Operating on Thursdays and Fridays, the Wellness Clinic provides some of the following services:

	Medical history and risk assessment
	Physical examinations and helath screenings
	Medical and other follow-up services
	Laboratory services such as Pap smears, pregnancy tests, total blood chemistry profile, etc.
	Pregnancy, pre-conception and contraceptive counseling
	HIV education, risk assessment, and confidential testing for females and males
	WIC assessment, certification, and recertification
	Breast self-examination instruction
	Depression screening and referrals to on and off-site mental health services

All services are based on a sliding fee scale while accepting Medicaid. Although the Clinic does not provide primary care for chronic diseases, the Clinic has an extensive referral service to both traditional and alternative health care providers in the community.