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18 Feb

Op-Ed: Medicaid: The Load-Bearing Beam of Rural Healthcare Access

Op-Ed: Medicaid: The Load-Bearing Beam of Rural Healthcare Access SV Herald 02-18-2025 OpEd Medicaid the load bearing beam of rural healthcare access Dennis Walto Chiricahua Health Foundation As Congress eyes cost savings in the health sector, the focus will be on Medicaid. But as the gaze turns to action, we need to be reminded that […]

Chiricahua Leadership Meets Governor Hobbs at State of the State Address

Chief Executive Officer Dr. Jonathan Melk and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Darlene Melk caught up with Governor Katie Hobbs at her State of the State address on Tuesday, February 11th in Sierra Vista. In her remarks, Governor Hobbs, who began her career as a social worker working with homeless youth and later helped run one […]

Chiricahua Community Health Centers and Cochise ESA celebrate donation of over 2,500 books

Chiricahua Donates 2,560 Books to Support Reading Across Cochise County Bruce Whetten bruce.whetten@myheraldreview.com DOUGLAS − Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc., in partnership with the Cochise County Education Service Agency, recently donated 2,560 books to the Reading Across Cochise County initiative. The event, which took place on Thursday, Jan. 30 at the Early Childhood Center of […]

Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc. is a mission driven Federally Qualified Health Center and a tax exempt not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Founded in 1996 as a small, rural health clinic operating in a community center, Chiricahua has since grown to become the largest primary care organization in southeastern Arizona, serving more than 35,000 patients annually. Chiricahua operates fifteen fixed-site medical, dental, behavioral health and pharmacy clinics, and five mobile-medical and mobile-dental units, that serve patients throughout the more than 6200 square mile borderlands of Cochise County.

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Registered Charity Number: 86-0814898 - For Tax-deductible donations in AZ, the QCO Code is 20043 This health center receives HHS funding and has Federal PHS deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.