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We Can’t Do It Alone
The Miami-Dade County Health Department has huge responsibilities.
Our 900 employees deliver a myriad of services to the
county’s 2.4 million residents. But even with all of our untiring
efforts, we realize we cannot do it alone.
The Health Department has long recognized the importance
of partnerships and volunteerism. The lasting relationships we
enjoy in the community with individuals and all types of private and public groups
are key to attaining our goals.
Our partners include organizations that provide a safety net of care and health
education for the estimated 500,000 uninsured and underserved residents of
Miami-Dade County. They also include individual volunteers spanning the health
care spectrum who generously and compassionately choose to make a difference
in our community.
Their numbers are truly impressive. More than 1,470 volunteers support our
department and the free clinics in the community, providing care to over 57,000
uninsured and underserved men, women and children last year. The value of their
donated services exceeded $29 million. These statistics only scratch at the surface
because they do not include the immense contributions made by our many other
community partners and their staffs.
The partner organizations and volunteers not only give the gift of good health,
but in so doing they reduce the number and frequency of expensive emergency
room visits. Thus, they play a key role in controlling health care costs and minimizing
the tax burden shared by all of us.
This publication recognizes only a modest selection of the many organizations
and volunteer efforts that enhance the quality and delivery of health care services
in our community. Our partners and individual volunteers present daily evidence
of the power of possibilities, hope and commitment. Because of their success in
transforming and improving the lives of those less fortunate, we are truly grateful
for their contributions.
Lillian Rivera, R.N. M.S.N, Ph.D.
Administrator
Miami-Dade County Health Department