Medical Assistance
 The Neighborhood Nurse Center is a Penrose-St. Francis Mission Outreach Program that has six community crisis sites. Penrose-St. Francis provides a Faith Community Nurse at Tri-Lakes Cares to work with the uninsured and the underinsured. Healing is profoundly spiritual, and Penrose-St. Francis, as a faith-based organization, has a commitment to the whole person. At the Neighborhood Nurse Centers, the physical, emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing is assessed by a Faith Community Nurse, a registered nurse with specialty training and expertise in coaching individuals through medical issues that may have foundational spiritual or social issues underlying a medical need.
Nurse Cindy is available for in-person visits on the following days and times:
- Mondays: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
- Tuesdays: 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
- Thursdays: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
If you have questions or concerns, you can also contact her via telephone at 719-481-4864, x 103 or via email at cindystickel@centura.org
The Faith Community Nurse at the Neighborhood Nurse Center is available to:
- Provide a thorough nursing assessment
- Connect with medical providers
- Assist with insurance resources
- Offer financial assistance for prescriptions and co-pays
- Advocate for unmet medical needs
- Engage with emotional and spiritual conversations and prayer
- Arrange preventative and chronic disease management
- Provide health education for neighbors and their families
Penrose-St. Francis Health also offers a free Volunteer Medical Clinic at Tri-Lakes Cares to provide safety-net primary care until a medical home can be found. A volunteer doctor is available by appointment. Please contact Nurse Cindy to set up an appointment.
Tri-Lakes Cares loans out durable medical equipment based upon availability to include wheelchairs, walkers and shower chairs.
Please contact Nurse Cindy Stickel at cindystickel@centura.org or 719-481-4864 x103:
- For more information about the Neighborhood Nurse Center
- To make an appointment to the doctor
- To borrow from the medical equipment loan closet (based on availability)
- To make an inkind donation of medical equipment or over the counter medication. Please note that we are not able to accept donations of prescription medications.
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