Mission Statement

The mission of the Center for Healing and Hope is to serve, in the name of Christ, people who experience difficulty is obtaining health care services in the greater Goshen community. The Center for Healing and Hope is committed to establishing effective and affordable health-care solutions for every person’s need, regardless of their ethnic, cultural, religious, or economic background. The Center seeks to cure when possible and to care always, emphasizing long-term solutions, prevention, and wholistic health care.

Future Directions

Community Provider Network

The Center for Healing and Hope is collaborating with regional physicians, laboratories, pharmacies, and x-ray facilities in developing a community health care provider network. In order for a family to qualify for the program, the social worker completes a financial assessment. This process determines their ability to pay, based upon a standard sliding scale. Then the family receives a Community Health Network identification card, indicating the discount for which they are eligible. Upon presentation of the card to a provider, the provider discounts their fee(s). Each family pays the discounted amount directly to the provider.

The Community HealthCare Network will also benefits immigrants who have adequate health insurance, but experience health-care difficulties because of their linguistic or cultural barriers. The Center for Healing and Hope’s vision is to provide a one-tier health system where all people receive the same level of care regardless of their ability to pay.

Preventative Care

As health care needs in the greater Goshen community increase, it is pivotal that the Center for Healing and Hope continues to serve the poor and uninsured. The Center for Healing and Hope will refer patients to primary care physicians for preventive care. Children will receive routine immunizations and physical examinations. Families will be educated regarding holistic family health care. The Center for Healing and Hope will advocate with other community agencies, developing new services where they do not exist.

Wholistic Care

The Center for Healing and Hope will collaborate with numerous churches in the greater Goshen community to develop Spiritual Care Teams. Spiritual Care Teams will compassionately provide patients who request spiritual support, such as prayer, encouragement, or healing from loss, with these services. For those who do not have a church family and wish to find one, Spiritual Care Teams will link patients with a compatible congregation for ongoing care.