DEDICATED TO YOUR HEALTH
For more than 45 years, Rural Health Services (RHS) has provided a wide array of primary and preventive healthcare services to the population of Aiken County and surrounding areas.
RHS is a private, non-profit, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). RHS offers culturally-competent, comprehensive primary, preventive, and supplemental healthcare services to all people, regardless of ability to pay, through its main facility in Aiken and satellite facilities in Clearwater and South Aiken.
A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
On behalf of the Board of Directors, Executive Team, providers, and staff, I would like to thank the Aiken County community for allowing Rural Health Services to be your Primary Care Medical Home during the past year.
Our mission to provide accessible, quality, comprehensive primary healthcare services in a dignified and culturally-competent manner would not be possible without the incredible support from our loyal patients and community partners.
I am incredibly proud to call this community our home and you, our family. I look forward to another fantastic year of compassion, quality, and caring.
BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
School-Based Health Services
340B Program
Agriculture Department
THANK YOU, Nothing Bundt Cakes of Aiken, for donating 175 bundlets to all staff members and the grand raffle prize. Your support means the world to us. Thank you for giving back to community health workers. 🎂💖 #nhcw2022 #nhcw22 #valuechcs #advocateforchange
Happy Staff Appreciation Day! RHS celebrated with lunch, #NHCW2022 t-shirts, and over 30 raffle prizes from local organizations. Together we build strong communities 💜
Saturday’s Back to School Bash at CCPC was a huge success! 🎒🍎240 bookbags were distributed to children in our local community.
Thank you Aiken School of Cosmetology & Barbering for providing free back-to-school haircuts. Mr. Anderson did a fantastic job providing face painting to all. Our school-based team enrolled more students in our health program that provides dental and well-child visits directly in the ACPSD.
#NHCW2022 #ValueCHCs #backtoschool2022 #backtoschoolbash #BookBagGiveAway #bookbagdrive
Saturday’s Back to School Bash at CCPC was a huge success! 🎒🍎240 bookbags were distributed to children in our local community.
Thank you Aiken School of Cosmetology & Barbering for providing free back-to-school haircuts. Mr. Anderson did a fantastic job providing face painting to all. Our school-based team enrolled more students in our health program that provides dental and well-child visits directly in the ACPSD.
#NHCW2022 #ValueCHCs #backtoschool2022 #backtoschoolbash #BookBagGiveAway #bookbagdrive
Mayor Rick N. Osbon presented the National Health Center Week Proclamation to RHS CEO, Carolyn Emanuel-McClain, at our legislative breakfast in Aiken, SC.
#ValueCHCs #NHCW2022 |#advocacymatters | #HealthcareForAll
Photo by Dede Biles, Aiken Standard.
Thank you, Paragon Builders, for sponsoring two new blessing boxes at our FHC and MJW locations!
During #NHCW2022, we wanted to further assist our community with these giving boxes. The community can now donate non-perishable food items, clothing, and hygiene products at all of our sites to residents that may need them.
A huge thank you to Tracey Scoville, DeAndre Simmons, and Tymire Chism for constructing these boxes and making it all possible. Special thanks to Jeanette Fleming who continued to #advocate for these boxes at all RHS locations.
"Take what you need, give what you can." 💜💚
#TogetherWeCan #blessingbox #valuechcs
240 BACKPACK GIVEAWAY! Join RHS on August 13th from 9-12pm at Clyburn Center for Primary Care. Bags are first come, first serve. Visit ruralhs.org/2022-nhcw for a list of all of our events for National Health Center Week! Together we can make a difference. 🎒📗✏️ #NHCW2022 #valuechcs
We’re excited to welcome our first group of Family Medicine Residents! When you see them throughout RHS, ARMC, and in our community, help us give them a warm welcome.
Read more: https://lnkd.in/gXMkQsCi
RHS staff attends the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Children's Place, Inc. Therapeutic Daycare!
Children’s Place Inc., a United Way of Aiken County agency, is a therapeutic and behavioral health childcare and family development center. They serve families in Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Edgefield, and McCormick counties. This facility will help children and families grow stronger and help overcome trauma and adversity.
Read more: https://www.childrensplaceinc.org/
So many happy faces at Gurosik's Berry Plantation in North Augusta. Our community health workers and agricultural team were able to provide COVID-19 boosters to the workers at this farm. Great job Margarett, Kim, Marie, Eli, Wendy, and Luis!
If you know of any farms in Aiken county or surrounding areas that could benefit from our services, please reach out to Wendy at 803-618-9015.
Happy #PRIDE month! 🌈 RHS celebrates the LGBTQ+ communities at the 2022 AUGUSTA PRIDE Festival. Community Health Centers are a place where ALL are welcome, seen, valued, and cared for.
Don't forget:
❤️ FREE HIV Testing at CCPC & FHC!
🧡 FREE HIV Testing take-home kits available!
💛 Ask one of our providers about PrEP medication.
💚 RHS offers gender-affirming hormone therapy.
💙 FREE condoms and safe-sex kits available while supplies last.
💜 FREE Grief Support Groups every 2nd/4th Tuesday at 5:30PM
RHS is committed to empowering ALL patients, including individuals identifying as LGBTQ+, to live the healthiest lives possible. Our caregiving team provides responsive, compassionate, and respectful care in a welcoming environment.
We are skilled in LGBTQ+ Care:
❤️Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) & HIV Treatment
🧡Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy
💛Substance Use Disorder
💚Primary and Preventive Health Screenings
💙Women's Health Services
💜Behavioral Health Assessments
#pridemonth #pridemonth2022 #augustapride #lgbtqpride #loveislove #HealthcareForAll #healthcareforeveryone #HIVTreatment #PREP #hormonetherapy
Drug Take-Back Day was a SUCCESS! Over 37 pounds of unused and unwanted medication were safely disposed of at CCPC.
Special thanks to Cherisse, PharmD, Aiken Department Of Public Safety, North Augusta Public Safety, and Aiken Center for Alcohol and Drug Services who coordinated this DEA-sponsored event.
Couldn't make it? Visit local year-round drop boxes:
💊 Aiken County Sheriff's Office
💊North Augusta Public Safety Headquarters
💊Burnettetown Police Department
🦠COVID-19 Update from the CDC-
Certain #immunocompromised individuals and those ages 50+ can now receive a 2nd #booster shot to protect themselves and others from COVID-19 (the initial dose must be administered at least 4 months ago).
Adults who received a vaccine or booster dose of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at least 4 months ago may now receive a second booster dose using an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
RHS has two vaccine clinic locations that are available on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday from 12-4PM.
More from the CDC's updated vaccine recommendations: https://bit.ly/37hUANb
#2ndbooster #doublebooster #vaccines #COVID19 #vaccineclinic #freevaccines #moderna #pfizer #boostershots #aiken #aikensc
On Tuesday, April 5th the Rural Health Services Agricultural Workers Program visited Gurosik's Berry Plantation to administer #flu vaccines. This farm is a leading producer of strawberries, hybrid blackberries, and related products in the Central Savannah River area. 14 workers were able to get vaccinated.
Our mobile team loves to connect with local agricultural workers and provide them with protection against the flu. Great job, Wendy, Luis, Pam, Ms. Williams, and Chryline! 💜
Interested in getting your vaccine?
📞 803-380-7000
Our clinical team and agricultural department visit J.W. Yonce and Sons, Big Smile Peach Orchard 🍑 to administer flu vaccines. The team administered 80 vaccines in two days! Amazing job to Luis, Wendy, Chairty, Pam, Latina, Shaniya, and Chryline. 💉
RHS’s Management Team! 🩺
A huge thank you to Jennifer Henderson, @330partners for coaching RHS’s management training. Our training at focused on team basics, coaching techniques, team building activities, decision-making, brainstorming, and problem-solving. We are so grateful to all of our managers for always growing and adapting to change! 🩺😷
HAPPY VALENTINE’S WEEK FROM #RHS! 💘
🍫170 treat bags gifted from the CEO!
🍩 40 dozen donuts and coffee delivered to all sites!
🍕 50 boxes of pizza ordered for all staff!
💗 600 condoms distributed to patients for National Condom Day!
We are so thankful for the 171 employees that are dedicated to our mission and serving the patients in our #Aiken community.
#valentines2022 #bemyvalentine #spreadthelove #employeerecognition #condoms #safesex #sexualhealth #weloveouremployees #employeeappreciation #valentinesweek #stdawareness #NationalCondomDay
FREE condoms will be given out all week at our CCPC location for #NationalCondomDay! Protect yourself this Valentine’s Day by picking up one of our goodie bags from Austin or Karly.
Condoms are the only form of contraception that protects against both #STIs and unintended pregnancy.
#sexualhealthawareness #wrapitup #HIVprevention #yesmeansyes #safesex #sexualhealth #preventioncare
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