Golfers raise thousands of dollars for Shalom Health Care Center

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Clear skies Tuesday made for a cleanable time for the Shalom Health Care Center‘s 3rd yearly play outing.

People helped rise thousands of dollars to assistance support the nonprofit’s services disposable for those who are underserved.

Event organizers accidental their fundraising efforts are captious to support the center’s ngo going. On Tuesday, much than a 100 radical gathered astatine the Eagle Creek Golf Club to assistance rise wealth for Shalom Health Care Center. The nonprofit’s ngo is to guarantee that everyone has entree to affordable wellness care.

“We enactment Monday done Friday to enactment and execute our mission,” said Dr. Leonardo R. Ortega, the Shalom Health Care Center president and main enforcement officer.

Morella Dominguez, Shalom’s main selling and improvement officer, said, “We spot galore radical from antithetic ethnicity groups: African Americans, Africans, Hispanic, Burmese, Russian, everybody that comes done the door.”

Dominguez says the halfway sees much than 14,000 patients each year. The halfway provides superior care, behavioral wellness services, wellness acquisition and more. People who are uninsured and underinsured person a simplification successful their out-of-pocket costs for services done the center’s sliding interest discounts.

“There is simply a immense spread successful radical being underinsured oregon not person security astatine all, truthful we would similar to supply services to them to entree wellness attraction and preventive care,” Dominguez said.

Overall, the halfway says they privation to guarantee these captious services stay disposable for years to come.

“We are present to fulfill that gap, that request to those who request it and to supply wellness care, support, wellness security and medicine, and vaccine,” Ortega said.

“Our anticipation is to proceed providing services to the ‘most-needed’ community, the radical that could not spend wellness care,” Dominguez said.

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