To improve the quality of life for the large population of migrant farmworkers in Jackson and Union counties, Shawnee Health begins to provide a primary health care program aimed at serving them.
El Centro de Salud para Adolescentes se desarrolló en 1978 para brindar una gama completa de servicios médicos, dentales y sociales a los miembros jóvenes de la comunidad del sur de Illinois (de 0 a 25 años).
Se establece la corporación de desarrollo y servicio de salud Shawnee para brindar inicialmente capacitación a los hospitales y ayudar a desarrollar programas para abordar la escasez de atención médica en las áreas urbanas.
Originalmente construido en la calle 14 en Murphysboro, el sitio se quedó pequeño y se construyó un nuevo centro de salud detrás del St. Joseph Memorial Hospital. Se ofrecía una amplia gama de servicios para mantener y mejorar la salud de los pacientes.
Beginning with the development of a care coordination unit, Shawnee Health begins to build out a division of the organization specifically working towards improving access to social services throughout southern Illinois. Programs for older adults are eventually added including the Nursing Home Ombudsman Program and Adult Protective Services.
Construction finishes up on Shawnee Health’s first stand alone dental center, a new 3,200 square foot building in Murphysboro. Dental diagnosis and general treatment services begin for persons of all ages.
Shawnee Health purchases a running physician clinic and begins operating the Carterville Family Practice Center. This clinic opens up opportunities for a new range of the underserved populations in the area to receive affordable, quality, care. A new medical building was completed in 1988.
Shawnee Health purchases the facility and assumes practice of a Carbondale OB/GYN provider to allow women of any class to gain access to quality health care. The name is changed to Shawnee Women’s Health and Family Medicine.
Shawnee Health develops clinics and recruits specialists to the region to help coal miners with the problems of black lung and related disorders. These clinics recruited specialists from across the country and originated primarily to help coal miners with the problems of black lung and related disorders.
Teaming up with Carbondale Community Highschool, along with other local agencies, Shawnee Health announces the opening of two school-based health centers. School-based health centers provide convenient, affordable, high-quality medical, dental and social services to students, faculty, and members of the school district to promote physical and mental health.
Los servicios de medicina familiar, salud conductual y odontología se llevan al campus de Marion. Esto aumenta la población a la que Shawnee Health Service puede atender y proporciona una ubicación centralizada para las necesidades de salud de nuestros pacientes.
Shawnee Health Service completa el campus de Carbondale con la incorporación de instalaciones médicas y odontológicas. Los servicios actuales se han ampliado para incluir servicios como tratamiento de adicciones, pediatría y farmacéuticos.
Shawnee Health opens a same day medical treatment clinic. This allows for patients to seek day of medical care for urgent minor illnesses and injuries.