Community Health Care Opening More Centers
HURON, S.D. - A Community Health Center will open soon in Huron.
A location for the facility is being sought, says John Mengenhausen, chief executive officer of Howard-based Horizon Health Care, adding that the new center is a response to increasing demands for services.
"It was at the request of a number of organizations in Huron, because they felt there was such a need there. There's plenty of very good physicians in Huron, without a doubt, but there is also a population in Huron that has trouble accessing the private physicians due to their lack of financial resources, lack of health insurance, those type of things."
Horizon Health received a $216,000 federal grant to open the clinic. Mengenhausen says Horizon wants to work in partnership with existing medical providers in Huron to reach more people.
"Do their primary care, give them good primary care, and if they need to be referred on to the specialists, then we try to work with them to get into somebody who is willing to help them and see them, even though they may not have the financial resources to pay the bill in full."
The center plans to offer a full complement of services, says Mengenhausen, including dental, x-ray, family medicine, pediatrics and emergency care. He says the plan is to open by Nov. 1 with about eight employees.
