With community programs and partnerships, we improve access to healthcare and support the quality of life and holistic health of the Greenville community.
For example, St. Francis helps provide better access to dental care for low-income and uninsured families with the Mobile Dental Unit. Serving over 2,000 residents each year, the Mobile Dental Unit is true community collaboration, with past and present partners including:
As a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness as a part of the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.
In July 2008, St. Francis began to work with the members of the at-risk Sterling community, devastated by a tragic fire years ago, to create a shared vision of a healthy community and to identify priority improvements. Now, private and public partners throughout Greenville have begun to build this community economically, socially, and spiritually.
Through a partnership with Mercy Housing's Mulberry Court community, St. Francis was able to provide nursing care for the residents, health education materials, dental health visits, meals, and complementary therapies.
St. Francis and the Junior League of Greenville previewed a national program here called “Kids in the Kitchen,” addressing childhood obesity.
St. Francis and the Center for Developmental Services reach more than 500 families every year with interpretation services and the Tooth Tales educational program.
A partnership with Leadership Greenville's Class 35 enabled St. Francis to developed a thriving community garden.