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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Make Screening a Priority
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Make Screening a Priority Kevin Callison | cchci@cchci.org | October 5th, 2026 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to honor those who have faced breast cancer, celebrate survivors, remember those we have lost, and encourage our communities to take an active role in their breast health. For women throughout […]
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Beyond the Quick Checkup: How 18 Integrated Services Under One Roof Are Redefining Rural Healthcare
Beyond the Quick Checkup: How 18 Integrated Services Under One Roof Are Redefining Rural Healthcare Darlene Melk, MD FAAP, CPE When people picture a community health center, they often envision a simple neighborhood clinic. It is seen as the kind of place you drop by for a quick flu shot, a physical for high school […]
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Chiricahua News – Powering Resilience: How Solar Microgrids Are Securing Healthcare Access in Cochise County
Chiricahua News – Powering Resilience: How Solar Microgrids Are Securing Healthcare Access in Cochise County In rural healthcare, continuous power isn’t just about keeping the lights on—it is vital to protecting essential care, life-saving medicines, and community trust. Across Cochise County, unexpected utility outages, monsoon storms, and extreme weather events pose constant operational challenges. For […]
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ChiricahuaNEWS – Supporting Whole-Person Health: $30,000 Mercy C.A.R.E.S. Grant Expands the Chiricahua Cares Fund
Supporting Whole-Person Health: $30,000 Mercy CARES Grant Expands the Chiricahua Cares Fund Healthcare extends far beyond clinic walls. Access to stable housing, reliable utilities, clean water, and nutritional food is fundamentally tied to physical and mental well-being. To address these critical non-medical drivers of health, Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc. has received a $30,000 Mercy […]
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Chiricahua News: Chiricahua provides much more than clinical care to their community.
Chiricahua provides much more than clinical care to their community. At Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc., healthcare is about far more than what takes place inside an exam room. Serving a rural area comparable in size to Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, our team is dedicated to meeting people where they are: bringing compassionate, comprehensive […]
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Supporting Cochise County Families: Chiricahua’s Community Health Workers Gear Up for Back-to-School
Supporting Cochise County Families: Chiricahua’s Community Health Workers Gear Up for Back-to-School As summer winds down and a new school year approaches, families across Cochise County are tackling their annual back-to-school checklists. Recognizing that preparing for the classroom goes beyond books and supply lists, Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc. (Chiricahua) is out in full force […]
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We Got the Power: Strengthening Healthcare Through Solar Energy in Douglas
We Got the Power: Strengthening Healthcare Through Solar Energy in Douglas Celebrating a Chiricahua Sustainability Milestone This National Health Center Week, Chiricahua Community Health Centers is proud to celebrate a major milestone: the completion and official switch-on of our new solar energy and resilience project in Douglas. While solar panels symbolize a commitment to sustainability, […]
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Painless Precision: Chiricahua Transforms Dental Care in Cochise County
Painless Precision: Chiricahua Transforms Dental Care in Cochise County At Chiricahua Community Health Centers, our mission has always been to provide high-quality, patient-centered care to everyone in our community. We believe that living in a rural area shouldn’t mean you have less access to advanced medical and dental technology. Thanks to the generous support of […]
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Get Game-Ready: Free Sports Physicals for Cochise County Student-Athletes!
Get Game-Ready: Free Sports Physicals for Cochise County Student-Athletes! With the new school year and sports seasons right around the corner, it is time to make sure our local student-athletes are healthy, safe, and cleared to play! At Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc. (CCHCI), we are dedicated to keeping our community’s youth active and thriving. […]
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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.
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