Medical Assistance
Medical AssistanceTLC’s onsite nursing services are currently unavailable due to TLC’s response to the Coronavirus. Please visit TLC’s coronavirus page for more information about our current services.
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. The Faith Community Nurse at the Neighborhood Nurse Center is available to:
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 on Tuesdays.
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:
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