If you would like to receive more information about Variety Health Center, please call Kristen Finley at (405)235-6466 ext. 231.

Variety Health Center has played a critical role in ensuring good health for mothers and children in central Oklahoma since 1932.

 

Today, Variety Health Center provides services at four locations:

 

· Downtown Women’s Health Clinic

           420 NW 6th Street in Oklahoma City

 

· Mid-Del Variety Clinic

           3851 Tinker Diagonal serving Midwest City and Del City

 

· Variety Grand Boulevard WIC Clinic

           948 SW 36th, SW 36th and Western

 

· Lafayette Pediatric Clinic

           SW 44th and Walker

 

Variety’s clinics provide uninsured and low income women with prenatal care and planning for healthy pregnancies.  For the community’s low income children it offers well and sick child health care.  In 2005, Variety administered over 17,000 immunizations and shots, averaging 1,500 a month.

 

Variety operates Oklahoma’s largest stand alone provider of the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) nutrition supplement and education services.  This program is located at Variety Grand Boulevard WIC at SW 36th and Western.  Variety also offers WIC services at the Mid-Del Clinic.

· 2006   Received recognition from the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) for successfully reducing the number of children who regularly seek outpatient primary health care through hospital emergency departments

 

· 2006   Surpassed the OHCA expectations by providing more EPSDT screening to    children ages one year and younger than was projected

 

· 2005   Served over 18,000 patients annually, including maternity, child health care and WIC nutrition education services

 

· 2005   Provided over 56,000 health care visits annually

 

· 2005   Provided 17,754 immunizations to 4,638 children

 

· 2004 Lo Mejor de OKC award for best clinic in Oklahoma City by el Nacional de Oklahoma City

 

· 2004 Community Partner Award for participation in community health fairs

 

· 2003 “Immy” Award by the Oklahoma Immunization Coalition for outstanding public provider

 

· 2003 Variety participated in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national “Covering Kids and Families” initiative which resulted in SoonerCare net enrollments more than twice the national average

 

· 2003 US Department of Agriculture representatives visited to observe the “Get Fit with WIC” effort developed by Variety’s WIC staff, and distributed the program specifications as a model to be used nationwide

 

 

Last year Variety Health Center provided health care to over 18,000 women and children.