Pueblo Community Health Center (PCHC) recently won the Grand Prize for the 2022 80% in Every Community National Achievement Award. The award is given in recognition of distinguished, ongoing efforts to increase colorectal cancer screening rates across the United States by The National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCRT), founded by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
When the Pueblo Community Health Center opened its 14,000 square-foot facility in 2003, Pueblo's east side, home to mostly minority residents, had the highest level of unmet need for primary health care in the city.
Pueblo Community Health Center (PCHC) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), a program of the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment have teamed up to better serve Pueblo County.
Pueblo Community Health Center (PCHC) is pleased to announce that they have been named a Health Center Quality Leader awardee by the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), a division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This award recognizes the highest performing health centers nationwide.
Pueblo Community Health Center (PCHC) is pleased to announce that Lynne Evetts, RN, FNP, was nominated for the 2021 Nightingale Award. Presented by the Colorado Nurses Foundation, this award is Colorado’s highest nursing honor, and it recognizes nurses who advance their profession and positively impact their community in exceptional ways.
Pueblo Community Health Center (PCHC) is again offering affordable sports physicals for athletes in both middle and high school enrolled in either Pueblo School Districts 60 or 70. Students DO NOT need to be seen at the school that they attend.
On Wednesday, April 20, 2021, The Latino Chamber of Commerce hosted a virtual Net-Walk in the East side of Pueblo. They featured businesses and developments currently taking place on the East side, including the construction of the Pueblo Community Health Center East Side Clinic.
On Friday, November 20, 2020, in a virtual awards ceremony, Chad Hess, PA-C, Associate Medical Director at Pueblo Community Health Center (PCHC) was awarded with the Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States (CHAMPS) “Exceptional Clinical Leadership Award” for 2020.
Pueblo Community Health Center has a history of energy stewardship. Its Colorado Clinic, built in 2009 and designed by RTA Architects, was four times larger than the facility it replaced. Yet its per-square-foot utility expenses were lowered 25% due to energy-efficient design and a 50-kilowatt rooftop photovoltaic array.
Pueblo Community Health Center (PCHC) broke ground recently to mark the official start of the construction of their new clinic at East 8th and La Crosse Streets in Pueblo.
