Christ Community Health Services

Christ Community Health Services (CCHS), founded in 2007, opened its Olde Town medical clinic in the Boardman Widows Home in 2011 in downtown Augusta as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). CCHS now operates four community practice sites, one of which includes a separate dental practice site strategically located in urban Augusta neighborhoods, providing local access to affordable care for patients who face medical, economic, and transportation hardships. 

This FQHC, which is a not-for-profit Christ-based comprehensive primary healthcare practice, provides adult and pediatric primary care, HIV/chronic disease management, chronic care management, dental, laboratory, physical therapy, integrated behavioral health services, prescription assistance, and specialty referrals to more than 7,300 underinsured and uninsured families from a 12-county region in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia and South Carolina. These services are provided by an interprofessional care team of physicians (internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and behavioral health), nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, licensed clinical social workers, and others. CCHS is also a Level III National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Recognized Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) based on the presence of team-based care and coordination, patient-centered access, care management, and ongoing quality improvement in its clinical practices.

This faith-based practice’s mission is to proclaim, “Jesus as Lord and demonstrate His love by providing affordable, quality health care access to all, especially those underserved.”