This August, community health centers across the country will take center stage as National Health Center Week commences from August 4 – 10, 2024. In recognition, Jessie Trice Community Health System (JTCHS) is focusing on the iChooseHealth4 campaign.

“At JTCHS, we are humbled and honored to be a trusted healthcare provider and an integral part of the Miami-Dade community,” says JTCHS’s President and CEO, Ryan R. Hawkins. “The iChooseHealth4 campaign is our way of celebrating National Health Center Week and recognizing the essential role that health centers play. We encourage everyone to get involved and choose health — whether it’s for themselves, their  families or their community.”

The iChooseHealth4 campaign includes a social media component in which participants are invited to write what they choose health for on a card, snap a photo of themselves holding the card, and then share the photo on social media using the hashtags #iChooseHealth4, #NHCW24, #JTCHS and #ValueCHCs.

“We invite everyone to participate in the #iChooseHealth4 “fun” raiser and social media campaign and to challenge their family, friends and coworkers to do the same,” says JTCHS’s EVP and Chief Ambulatory Officer, Toni Thompson.

The theme for NHCW 2024 is “Powering Communities Through Caring Connections. Health Centers represent the nation’s largest primary care network. According to the National Association of Community Health Centers, in 2022, health centers served a record-breaking 31.5 million patients. This includes almost 400,000 veterans, 8.8 million children, nearly 1.4 million people without homes and roughly 3.5 million seniors.

Click here to download the #iChooseHealth4 card.

The Jessie Trice Community Health System, Inc. is one of Miami-Dade County’s preeminent federally qualified community health care centers, governed by a remarkably dedicated Board of Directors (51% of which are users of the medical and dental services) and a diverse, incredibly talented, committed family of providers and staff. The 1st Federally Qualified Health Center in the state and 5th in the nation, Jessie Trice Community Health System, Inc., is a Florida 501 (c) 3, not-for-profit organization that has been serving Miami-Dade County since 1967. JTCHS served its first patients from a trailer. Now, more than fifty (50) years after its founding, JTCHS owns and operates eleven (11) Comprehensive Primary Care centers, a 40 bed Women’s Residential Center for substance use, and are located in two (2) universities and forty (40) school-based health suites.

JTCHS knows and specializes in comprehensive health, offering a myriad of services to improve the health of the community. This includes: dentistry, family medicine, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, behavioral health, transportation, pharmacy, healthy start, obstetric & gynecological care, school-based health, community health promotions, health & wellness center, pediatrics, and ancillary services. For more information on the Jessie Trice Community Health System, call 305-637-6400 or visit www.jtchs.org. In addition, to stay connected with news and information about their services and facilities, follow Jessie Trice Community Health System on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @JessieTriceCHS.