Community Health Representative (CHR)
Director:
Sosa Nita Diaz
Hours of operation:
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Physical Address:
401 East Picacho Road
Winterhaven, CA 92283
(Inside Fort Yuma Health Care Center)
Mailing Address:
PO Box 1899
Yuma, AZ 85366
Phone:
(760) 572-4831
Fax:
(760) 572-7847
Mission Statement
To provide quality outreach health care services and health promotion/disease prevention to American Indians within their communities through well-trained CHR's.
The Quechan Community Health Representative Program provides services to all Indian people living on the Quechan reservation and in the Yuma area, who are eligible for I.H.S. health care.
Services provided are:
- Community Health Education
- Diabetes/Hypertension Monitor and Management
- Cancer/HIV/AIDS/Communicable Disease/Substance Abuse
- Elderly/General Medical - Home Health Care
- Transportation Services
- Information and referral
- In-Home Support Care
- Medication pick-up/Delivery
- Transportation services to the I.H.S. clinic and other medical facilities in the Yuma area are provided, to patients not having any other type of transportation available.
- Help the elderly or disabled patients to clean and maintain their homes.
Teach the elderly or disabled patients to purchase, plan, and prepare simple nutritious meals. - When necessary prepare food or perform basic cleaning for individuals who would otherwise be without these services.
- Medication pick-up and delivery is provided; when a family member, friends, or other means of pick-up is not available.