Programs  >  Health, Dental and Vision Care

     The Sulzbacher Center Health Services are designed as part of a community wide "Safety Net" of health care. As part of this system for over ten years, the Center has evolved into a Federally Qualified Health Care Facility - one of two in Duval County. The Center's dental clinic is the only full time adult indigent dental service in the area.

      The Sulzbacher approach to recovery from homelessness is holistic. The first step with a new guest of the Center is a full and complete medical assessment. In many cases, long ignored health matters have developed into catastrophic illnesses due to being ignored. Chronic diseases of the heart and lung, as well as hypertension and diabetes are rampant in the homeless community. Reclaiming good health gives the guest the freedom to work on other obstacles that must be overcome.

  Our Health Center provides primary care with enhanced specialty and dental services. Below is a list of the comprehensive care services available through our health center:

▪Vision care/glasses
▪Procedure Clinic

• ▪HIV/STD Testing
  
  

The Center's success in the health care arena is due to the dedicated group of volunteers and partners who work with our professional health care staff to treat and care for our patients. Community partners help in many areas including providing medication, testing, therapy, immunizations, medical case management, volunteer nursing students, snacks for diabetes, health education classes, vision screenings, glasses, funding for dental supplies, wheelchairs, medical equipment and much more. Community Partners include:

Action Ministries
Baptist Health
Child Guidance Clinic
City of Jacksonville
Community Asthma Project
Duval County Health Department
Epilepsy Foundation
FCCJ Dental Program
Florida Department of Children and Families
Gateway Community Services
Gentry Family Foundation
Gottleib Family Philanthropic Fund
Healthy Start and Healthy Families
HOPE Outreach Project
Jacksonville Baptist Association
Jacksonville Community Foundation
Jacksonville University School of Nursing
LabCorp
LSS Second Harvest Food Bank
Lucy Gooding Charitable Foundation
Magnolia Project
NE Florida Optometric Society
Safe-Lite Optical
Northeast Florida AHEC
NE Florida Lung Association
NE Florida Prevent Blindness
Paul E. & Klare N. Reinhold Foundation
Salvation Army
Shands Jacksonville
St. Vincent DePaul Society
St. Vincent's Health System
Temporary Loan Closet
Tomorrow's Rainbow
UF College of Medicine Community Psychiatry Program
UNF College of Health
Volunteers of America
We Care Jacksonville, Inc.
Wolfson Children's Hospital

 Many of the Center’s partners are local Florida Universities.  The Universities have been crucial in helping our medical staff meet the increasing needs of patient visits.  The Center has had and continues to have nurses, doctors and interns from the University of Florida, Florida State University, Jacksonville University and the University of North Florida.  Other partners directly involved with our medical department are We Care and Healthcare for the Homeless.

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