Charless Foundation Funding Empowers Affinia Healthcare’s Senior Services Expansion
ST. LOUIS, MO – Affinia Healthcare was recently awarded a $30,000 grant from the Charless Foundation to continue providing high-quality and exceptional service at the Southside Wellness Center, a leading wellness center for seniors in St. Louis.
This grant will support Affinia Healthcare’s work with the Southside Wellness Center and other senior living institutions by providing routine health screenings, including blood pressure and blood sugar screenings on a quarterly basis. Those seniors needing additional screenings and services will be connected to a Community Health Worker who will assist by scheduling an appointment with a medical provider.
In addition to seniors at Southside Wellness Center, the grant covers other seniors living within the 63104 and 63118 zip codes.
“The seniors in our community have given so much to their families, to our communities,” said Affinia Healthcare President and CEO Dr. Kendra Holmes. “To be in a position where we can give something back to them, something to help them have the best quality of life, is an honor and a privilege and we take pride in being able to provide these services to our elders.”
Services under this grant will be implemented at Southside Wellness Center as well as other senior centers in the targeted zip codes in 2025. For more information about Affinia Healthcare, visit www.affiniahealthcare.org.
CAPTION: Affinia Healthcare nurse Iris Norise administers a vaccine to Ollie Stewart, executive director of the Southside Wellness Center at an event in 2023. Affinia Healthcare has received a grant from the Charless Foundation to continue to provide services to seniors at that site and other senior centers in the 63104 and 63118 ZIP codes.
About Affinia Healthcare
Affinia Healthcare is an award-winning, nationally accredited health center, providing affordable primary and preventive health care for St. Louis, Missouri, area residents. Affinia Healthcare is a community health center, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and is accredited through The Joint Commission and National Committee of Quality Assurance organizations. Established in 1906 as the Holy Cross Dispensary, Affinia Healthcare today serves over 43,700 people per year, of whom more than 90 percent have incomes under 100 percent of the federal poverty level. Approximately 70 percent of patients served are Black or African American, 11 percent are Hispanic/Latinx, and over 4,000 are unhoused.
The Affinia Healthcare Foundation depends on a wide array of funding sources and individual donor contributions to support Affinia Healthcare’s mission of providing care for the most vulnerable and disenfranchised in our community. To make a donation to Affinia Healthcare, visit www.affiniahealthcare.org/donate. For more information about Affinia Healthcare, call 314-814-8700, or visit www.affiniahealthcare.org
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