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KEYSTONE HEALTH CENTER'S VOLUNTEERS ARE HONORED FOR THEIR SERVICE
(Chambersburg, PA) -- Keystone Health Center, a not-for-profit Community Health Center in Chambersburg, PA that is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, recently held a dinner to honor its current and past board members as well as community members who serve on board committees. Federal guidelines for Community Health Centers require that they be governed by a volunteer board of directors composed of community members, the majority of whom are health center patients. Joanne Cochran, Keystone’s founder and president, acknowledged the contributions of the honorees and thanked them for their support of Keystone’s mission. Guests at the event included three board members who served on the health center’s first board of directors: Larry Boyler, Paul Luka, and Arlene Miller. During the dinner, Warren Elliott, chairman of the Franklin County Commissioners, presented a proclamation in honor of Keystone’s 20th anniversary. In the proclamation the commissioners “commend Keystone Health Center for Twenty Years of valuable service and we ask the entire community to recognized the important contributions of the Keystone Health Center to the improvement of the general quality of life of the citizens of Franklin County.” The organization was also honored with a citation from the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania that was presented by Representative Rob Kauffman. In the citation the House “salutes Keystone Health Center as it recommits itself to the ideals and standards which have sustained it for twenty years.” Keystone Health Center provides high-quality family medicine, internal medicine, pediatric, obstetric, gynecological, cardiac, behavioral, and dental health care and, when needed, social services to underserved and vulnerable populations as well as the entire community, regardless of their ability to pay and even if they have no health insurance. Keystone now operates five full-time primary care practices—Keystone Family/Internal Medicine, Keystone Behavioral Health, Keystone Dental Care, Keystone Women's Care, and Franklin County Pediatrics—and one full-time specialty practice, the Franklin County Heart Center. Keystone also operates one year-round migrant and seasonal farmworker site in Berks County and one seasonal farmworker site in Adams County. Services to migrant farmworkers are also provided through outreach workers and contracted providers across the Commonwealth. For more information regarding Keystone Health Center, please visit the website at www.keystonehealth.org. For more information regarding this news release, please contact Dawn Stinson at (717) 263-2230 x 6002.
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