Building Community
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pages
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A Health Care Home - Quick Overview
Some health care providers think of their work as simply providing services or products. We think of Maple City Health Care Center as a health care home. A home is where a person feels safe, welcome, known, and valued.
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Building Community - Quick Overview
Lonely, isolated people often experience poor health. Conversely, people who have healthy relationships and live in a caring community are more likely to experience good health.
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Foundations and Corporations Supporting Maple City Health Care Center
The following organizations have provided grants to benefit the people served by Maple City Health Care Center.
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Our Neighborhood
Our neighbors are people who live in the north, east, and central areas of Goshen, Indiana. They speak Spanish, English, German, Polish, and a dozen other languages. Many are recent immigrants. Maple City Health Care Center, Chamberlain School, and the Boys and Girls Club are at the center of the neighborhood.
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special programs
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More Than Money
At Maple City Health Care Center, low-income people who have no insurance are eligible for sliding fee discounts. Some families pay no more than 10% of the cost of their health care.
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Our Futures Together
A criminally insane family moving into the house next door could be the launch of a horror movie or at least the start of a very bad day.
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stories
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A Taste of Heaven
Karen worked at the front desk at Maple City Health Care Center. From her desk, she had a clear view of the waiting room.
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My Building
Maple City Health Care needed a new roof. We invited donors, neighbors, and patients to help.
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The Hug
Prior to the election in 2008, Maple City Health Care Center registered new voters. We put up signs in our waiting lobby and we used our digital signage system to encourage people to register. All the signs and the registration forms were in both Spanish and English. Our front desk folks asked each patient if they were interested in registering or needed to change their address.
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The Table
Octavio and Denise (all names have been changed), a married couple with two young children moved into our neighborhood. We helped them obtain Emergency Medicaid coverage. We helped them with prenatal service and with the birth of their child. When Denise needed emergency surgery for a septic gall bladder, we asked the hospital and doctors to donate their services.
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news releases
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A New Resource for Patients with Mental Illness
Some of Maple City Health Care Center’s patients live with mental illness. Maple City’s board and staff are working to help patients with mental illness by supporting a new organization called Elkhart County Clubhouse.
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talks
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Being Transformed - A Journey Toward Health
A speech by Maple City Health Care Center's founder about how Christian values have influenced the work and structure of the Center.
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Freed from Slavery to the Fear of Death
A speech by Maple City Health Care Center's founder about how focusing on mission and vision helps free us from the fear of institutional death and how we can trust our organization's future to God’s provision and protection.
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FAQs
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How can my community create something like MCHCC?
Maple City Health Care Center cannot be franchised or copied because we are the result of a unique (particular) collaboration with our community. We believe, however, that our mistakes and successes may help your collaboration with your community. We offer this web site with the hope that our journey, our experiment, will benefit yours.
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What challenges does MCHCC face?
The major challenges we face are:
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testimonials
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Like a Queen
For a long time, I enjoyed good health, but then my health deteriorated. I had a hard time working. I was alone because my husband and I were separated.
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links
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Asset Based Community Development
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) considers local assets as the primary building blocks of sustainable community development.
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Elkhart Truth - Editorial February 2, 2011
The Elkhart Truth applauds Maple City Health Care Center's More Than Money program and encourages other not-for-profits to adopt or adapt the program.
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Elkhart Truth - More Than Money, Year Two
A newspaper article about a surprising result of the More Than Money program.
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Elkhart Truth - Rain Garden
Photos and a brief description of the planting of a rain garden at Maple City Health Care Center.
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