Community Health Care Clinic

The Community Health Care Clinic's new executive director said one of her priorities is to raise awareness of the primary care provider.

Holly Wayland-Hall has worked in nonprofit leadership for 23 years, according to the Community Health Care Clinic. She most recently served as executive director at the Village at Mercy Creek, a nonprofit extended living facility in Normal.

The Community Health Care Clinic in Normal has recovered its federal tax-exempt status. The agency that serves low-income people with no or inadequate health insurance lost its 501-C-3 designation in May of last year.

For the past 30 years — and despite temporarily losing its nonprofit status with the IRS — the Community Health Care Clinic in Normal has provided free health services to the uninsured. Now, it needs a new leader who will continue this mission.

Leaders at a free clinic in Normal that serves the uninsured say they’ve put new safeguards in place after a series of administrative blunders cost them their tax-exempt status with the IRS.

There aren't enough multilingual counselors in the area to meet the need of the non-English speaker population, but finding these counselors isn't easy.

The Community Health Care Clinic in Normal is now marking its 30th anniversary. The mission is the same as on opening day even as they’ve greatly expanded in size and scope of services provided.

With the COVID emergency over, the state of Illinois in May resumed those eligibility checks – called redeterminations – for the first time in three years. No one knows how many people will get bumped out of Medicaid over the next year.

The first observation of World AIDS Day happened 33 years ago. A longtime HIV/AIDS activist in Bloomington-Normal says that while some things have changed, vestiges of the country's response to that public health crisis remain.

Bloomington-Normal area residents who have trouble accessing sexual health care have a new option. Central Illinois Friends is partnering with the Community Health Care Clinic (CHCC) and Carle Health to set up a second location in CHCC’s Normal building on Fridays and Saturdays.