Lee Community Healthcare: For Your Family
Lee Community Healthcare is a community health center that provides primary and specialty care to the uninsured and economically distressed residents of Southwest Florida.
Lee Community Healthcare is committed to ensuring that no one will be denied access to services due to inability to pay and offers a sliding fee schedule based on family size and income. We understand the financial challenges that many individuals and families face, and this approach ensures that essential healthcare services, including primary care, tests, immunizations, mental health services, pediatrics, and women's care, are accessible to everyone in our community.
Our staff believes in empowering you and your family with education and information to improve your health and reduce trips to the emergency room.
Lee Community Healthcare Locations
Find Locations Here!Lee Community Healthcare has offices located in in Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres, Bonita Springs and Port Charlotte. Learn more here about where the different offices are located and what services we offer to the Southwest Florida community.
Our Services
- Addiction Medicine
- Adolescent and young adult medicine care for ages 12+ at our Dunbar location
- Adult Specialty and Pediatric Specialty
- Behavioral health
- Cancer and other disease screenings
- Case management, referrals outreach, transportation assistance, interpreters, and patient education
- Chronic disease management for diabetes, hypertension, asthma, COPD, and congestive heart failure
- Diagnostic laboratory and radiology services
- Family Medicine
- Immunizations for adults
- Primary and Pediatric Primary care at all locations
- Providing assistance to patients in obtaining discounted medications
- Screening for elevated blood levels, communicable diseases, and cholesterol
- Women’s Health including obstetric and gynecological care, including prenatal and perinatal care
Community Services
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Lee Community Healthcare Mobile Medicine Partnership
Everyone should have access to quality healthcare. Lee Health has partnered with Premier Mobile Health Services, a mobile healthcare service, to increase access to healthcare in the Southwest Florida community.
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Barbershop Wellness Health Initiative
Lee Health physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other staff have joined community members at Utopia Unisex Salon, to get to know our community’s health needs, check blood pressures, and offer supportive services. Learn more here!
Community Support Services
It is important to Lee Community Healthcare to serve the community and care for our patients. Call one of our locations for a full list of services offered at each location.
- Chronic disease management
- Diagnostic care
- Laboratory testing
- Nutrition and wellness
- Pharmacy with 340B
- Referrals and consultations
- Telemedicine
Partnerships and Collaborations
- United Way Social Worker Collaboration
- Premiere Mobile Health Services Partnership
- Barbershop and Hair Salon Initiatives
Connected to Residency and Fellowship Training Programs
- FSU Family Medicine Residency
- FSU Internal Medicine Residency
- FSU Psychiatric Residency
- LPG Advanced Practitioners Fellowship Program
Patient Testimonial: George's Personal Story
George Cole, right, has come a long way since 2017. In that year, he was diagnosed with Graves’ disease and lost his home to Hurricane Irma. Unable to work because of ill health and suddenly homeless, George turned to Lee Health’s community care outreach. Lyn Carlson, left, a coordinator with the program, helped George establish primary care at Lee Community Healthcare clinic in North Fort Myers to address his health challenges. She also connected the Dunbar native to the chronic disease program at Lee Health to help him manage his new diagnosis. "She told me she would help me and I believed in her," George says. "She gave me motivation, and I got a job. I’m thankful for Miss Lyn for being by my side and for the people that she works around, and giving me the confidence."
Lee Community Healthcare Receives National Recognition For Excellence
On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) announced its 2022 recipients of the Community Health Quality Recognition (CHRQ) award badges. Lee Health’s federally qualified health center look-alike (FQHC-LAL) known as Lee Community Healthcare received five of these prestigious awards, one being the highest recognition for overall clinical quality (Gold Badge). The CHQR award badges recognize Health Center Program awardees and look-alikes (LALs) that have made notable quality improvement achievements for the most recent UDS reporting period.
We have provided descriptions of each award received by Lee Health and Lee Community Healthcare.
- Health Center Quality Leader: Achieves the best overall clinical quality measure (CQM) performance among all health centers and are recognized in the following tiers: Gold (top 10%), Silver (top 11-20%), or Bronze top (21-30%)
- Access Enhancer: Increases the total number of patients served and the number of patients who receive at least one comprehensive service (mental health, substance abuse, vision, dental, and/or enabling) by at least 5%.
- Health Disparities Reducer: Demonstrates improvements in select CQMs during consecutive UDS reporting years (2020 and 2021 UDS) for at least one racial/ethnic groups; or meets established benchmarks for all racial/ethnic groups served within the most recent UDS reporting year.
- Advancing Health Information Technology (HIT) for Quality: Meets all criteria to optimize HIT services that advance telehealth, patient engagement, interoperability, and collection of social determinants of health data to increase access to care and advance quality of care.
- Addressing Social Risk Factors: Recognizes health centers that are screening for social risk factors impacting patient health and are increasing access to enabling services
Our patient care teams are formed from clinical staff that includes physicians, advanced registered nurse practitioners, nurses, patient registration specialists, case managers, chronic disease counselors and a nutritionist. View some of our providers below!
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