Providing Affordable, Quality Care
We believe people have a right to quality health care – services that are efficient, effective and accessible. We believe care should be compassionate and delivered in a dignified and respectful manner by a culturally competent and highly professional team of people.
FHLC does not discriminate in the provision of services to an individual (i) because the individual is unable to pay; (ii) because payment for those services would be made under Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); or (iii) based upon the individual’s race, color, sex, national origin, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
- Sliding Fee Scale: We offer medical, dental, and behavioral health services on a sliding fee scale for our patients who earn up to 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. We serve patients of all ages and income levels, both insured and uninsured.
- Medicaid and BadgerCare: Both accepted at all of our medical, dental, behavioral health and recovery centers.
- Medicare: We accept Medicare, and because we are a Federally Qualified Community Health Center, Medicare will pay for some additional preventative services not normally covered by the service.
- Private Health Insurance: Our clinics accept many private insurance plans.
- Co-payments: Our patients who have coverage that requires co-payments must pay that amount at the time care is provided.
FHLC does not discriminate in the provision of services to an individual (i) because the individual is unable to pay; (ii) because payment for those services would be made under Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); or (iii) based upon the individual’s race, color, sex, national origin, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
La Clinica de los Campesinos: A Brief HistoryIn the 1960s, a group of health professionals and migrant advocates in cooperation with church leaders got together and began providing free health services to migrant farmworkers in some of the church halls. This ultimately resulted in La Clinica de los Campesinos being formally organized in 1972 as a non-profit Wisconsin corporation. That same year, La Clinica secured federal funding and began delivering primary health care services in Wild Rose, Wisconsin under the guidelines of the Migrant Health Center Program.
In the mid-1980s, La Clinica initiated its outreach program providing migrant mobile health services and a voucher program. Under a formal agreement, the voucher program pays participating health care providers for services they provide to migrant and seasonal farmworkers who work and live too far from La Clinica's health center in Waushara County. Today, Family Health La Clinica continues to serve migrant and seasonal farmworkers across the state of Wisconsin via its state-of-the-art Mobile Health Center. The clinic's operations have expanded from its main, full-service site in Wautoma to additional dental centers in Mauston, Beaver Dam, and Stevens Point. Family Health also has a Behavioral Health & Substance Recovery Center in Friendship. |
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Recognition & Achievements
Public Health Excellence
In May 2021, Family Health La Clinica Chief Executive Officer, Laura Waldvogel, received the Excellence in Public Health Research Award from the Wisconsin Public Health Association.
A Leader in Rural Health
In November 2019, Family Health La Clinica (FHLC) was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Rural Health Award on behalf of the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health.
Pictured above (left to right):
Carl Ferguson, FHLC Board of Directors Chair;
Lisa Kilawee, FHLC Director of Strategic Community Engagement;
Laura Waldvogel, FHLC Chief Executive Officer;
Senator Patrick Testin, Wisconsin State Senate District 24
In March 2020, FHLC CEO, Laura Waldvogel, was a rural health panelist at the inaugural Lafollette Forum on Health Policy in Madison. View the full panel discussion below.
Pictured above (left to right): John Eich, Wisconsin Office of Rural Health, Director;
Jennifer Kowalkowski,
UW-Madison School of Nursing, PhD Candidate;
Jeff Smith, Wisconsin State Legislature, Senator;
Laura Waldvogel,
Family Health La Clinica, CEO;
Tim Size, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, Executive Director
In April 2020, FHLC's Dr. Javier Rincon was interviewed at our Wautoma clinic site by CBS This Morning's Adriana Diaz to highlight the impact of COVID-19 on rural healthcare providers, rural businesses, the agriculture industry and Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers. View the full segment below.
Pictured above (left to right):
Adriana Diaz, CBS News;
Dr. Javier Rincon, FHLC Family Practice Physician
Commitment to Minority Health and the Elimination of Health Disparities
Family Health La Clinica was one of two sites nationally that pioneered the process of retrospective equivalency into the National Health Disparities Collaborative. Due to hard work and continuous quality improvement with diabetes management programs, the health center was admitted into Phase 2 of the HDC.
FHLC's CEO, Laura Waldvogel, has been appointed to the Wisconsin Minority Health Council which advises the Department of Health and Family Services and other state governmental units on minority health issues.
In April 2020, FHLC received preliminary notice of funding through Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment of the Medical College of Wisconsin to be used over the next 6 months to support our efforts to develop a cohesive response to prevent and/or minimize the risk of transmission of COVID-19 among Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers and their employers throughout Wisconsin. This grant is intended to protect our farmworkers, their employers and our communities by advocating for and assisting in the deployment of a coordinated statewide effort around COVID-19 prevention and response.
Please see our recent mention in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel regarding migrant health here.
Netzali Pacheco Rojas, FHLC Mobile Services Supervisor, also took part in an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio's The Morning Show entitled Protecting Migrant Farm Workers from Coronavirus. Listen here.
In May 2020, Dr. Cheston Price, FHLC Mobile Medical Services Director, was interviewed on WSAW-TV Wausau regarding the health disparities experienced by migrant and seasonal agriculture workers, which the COVID-19 pandemic has only made more apparent. The full video interview is below, which can also be viewed with full text here.
In June 2020, Laura Waldvogel, Family Health La Clinica CEO, was featured in this Migrant Clinician's Network article to discuss the above-mentioned grant work. Here FHLC is being offered as a model in Best Practices in Mobile Team Outreach for other states to follow.
FHLC's CEO, Laura Waldvogel, has been appointed to the Wisconsin Minority Health Council which advises the Department of Health and Family Services and other state governmental units on minority health issues.
In April 2020, FHLC received preliminary notice of funding through Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment of the Medical College of Wisconsin to be used over the next 6 months to support our efforts to develop a cohesive response to prevent and/or minimize the risk of transmission of COVID-19 among Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers and their employers throughout Wisconsin. This grant is intended to protect our farmworkers, their employers and our communities by advocating for and assisting in the deployment of a coordinated statewide effort around COVID-19 prevention and response.
Please see our recent mention in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel regarding migrant health here.
Netzali Pacheco Rojas, FHLC Mobile Services Supervisor, also took part in an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio's The Morning Show entitled Protecting Migrant Farm Workers from Coronavirus. Listen here.
In May 2020, Dr. Cheston Price, FHLC Mobile Medical Services Director, was interviewed on WSAW-TV Wausau regarding the health disparities experienced by migrant and seasonal agriculture workers, which the COVID-19 pandemic has only made more apparent. The full video interview is below, which can also be viewed with full text here.
In June 2020, Laura Waldvogel, Family Health La Clinica CEO, was featured in this Migrant Clinician's Network article to discuss the above-mentioned grant work. Here FHLC is being offered as a model in Best Practices in Mobile Team Outreach for other states to follow.
VIDEO: Strategies for Rural Communities: Collaborations to Strengthen Health
March 2, 2020 - Rural communities often have distinct healthcare needs compared to urban counterparts, sometimes exacerbated by demographic and societal trends. This panel identified key issues in rural healthcare and discussed the promise of collaborations to improve the health of people in Wisconsin’s rural communities.
VIDEO: How the coronavirus is impacting rural areas
April 6, 2020 - While the coronavirus is having a disastrous impact on cities like New York and New Orleans, the virus is also starting to hit rural America. Adriana Diaz visits a town in Wisconsin, where doctors are worried an already spread thin health care system could be stretched to the limit.
VIDEO: Uncertainty in Hispanic community after three COVID-19 cases reported at Abbyland Foods
May 28, 2020 - Dr. Price says that the foremost fear he hears from the employees cared for at the mobile unit is losing their job. “Many of them rely on summer employment—that’s their income for the year,” he noted. By and large, he says employers and employees alike at the farms and food plants they have visited—including every major county in north central Wisconsin, he noted—have been receptive to the guidance provided.
