Join Affinity Health Center as we celebrate Cocktails by the River. Let the spring evening, social spirits and sparkling river set the ambiance at the live auction and wine pull. Dance the night away as a live band plays, while enjoying an open bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres. Get your ticket today through Eventbrite at affinityhealthcenter.org/cocktails before prices go up on May 3rd!

Thank You Sponsors!

We’re grateful to our event sponsors for making Cocktails by the River possible. These sponsors, along with the commitment of our community partners, do so much to support our mission of providing quality comprehensive healthcare with compassion, dignity and respect. We would like to extend a special thank you to our “Old Fashioned” Sponsor Avita Pharmacy.

February is Children’s Dental Health Month. This year’s campaign slogan is “Brush and clean in between to build a healthy smile”. Children can pick up dental themed coloring sheets in Affinity’s dental clinic all month. Affinity is proud to be one of the nations network of community health centers expanding access to routine dental care for children. Affinity Health Center provides full service dental care for children:  regular checkups and cleanings, sealants, fluoride varnish, fillings, x-rays. Dental hours at our Rock Hill location are: M, W, Th, F 8am-5pm, T 8am-6:15pm.

Catch Affinity Health Center’s, You Matter, radio segment each Tuesday on Interstate 107 FM. In this week’s episode, Chris Miller learns more about Hepatitis C by talking with Dr. Craig Charles from Affinity Health Center.

http://www.wrhi.com/2019/01/hepatitis-c-dr-craig-charles-1-22-19-148234

Affinity’s Medical Director, Craig Charles, MD and Director of Programs, Heather McCutcheon are presenting at the 2018 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment being held right outside Washington, DC. Their presentation features Affinity Health Center’s Hepatitis C testing, linkage and treatment program. This biennial conference is the largest national conference for comprehensive HIV care and treatment providers, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients, and stakeholders, sponsored and funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB).

Affinity Health Center is honored to be selected as a 2019 Transformative Grant partner. Fellow grantees include 32 non-profit organizations from all nine Deep South states whose projects span seven different programmatic focus areas. These one-year grants address disparities within the Southern HIV epidemic by increasing organizational capacity, reducing stigma, and promoting well-being, mental health, and telehealth. This opportunity is funded through the Gilead COMPASS Initiative in cooperation with Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. #TransformTheSouth #COMPASSInitiative

Open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace is going strong through December 15, 2018. Have questions about premiums? Want to know if you qualify? Try this Health Insurance Marketplace Calculator. Need help? Call Affinity Health Center and make an appointment for one-on-one assistance to sign up for your perfect plan. We even help with Medicaid applications.

October marks the beginning of Influenza Season each year in the United States and Affinity Health Center is ready to offer the Influenza Vaccine or flu shot to our patients.

Here’s four reasons to get your flu shot:

• The more people who get the flu shot, the better for everyone.  More immune people means that the flu virus has more trouble moving through the greater community, saving more folks at high risk of flu infection.
• It is impossible for the flu vaccine to give you the flu; there is nothing alive (viral or otherwise) in the flu shot.  It is created to simply stimulate your immune system in preparation to kill the flu virus should you encounter it.
• Thousands of people die of the flu every flu season; almost all of these deaths occur because the victim failed to get a flu shot, meaning their death was PREVENTABLE!
• You’re probably not allergic to anything in the flu shot. Many people believe they are allergic to something in the flu vaccine, but studies have shown that this is almost never the case.  People claiming allergies have undergone allergy testing and have shown no allergic reaction to components of the flu shot.

Make an appointment for your flu shot at Affinity or take advantage of flu clinics at local pharmacies, schools, or employers. Remember, getting your flu shot not only protects you, but everyone else.