Health for Friends Clinic receives $5,000 grant

Dec. 13, 2006

LUBBOCK, Texas- The Health for Friends Clinic in Lubbock recently received a $5,000 grant from the Lubbock Area Foundation to purchase medical supplies and enhance patient education.

The clinic provides free health screenings and health education to low-income individuals over 40 who suffer from diabetes, hypertension, high blood pressure or chronic obesity.

"The money from the grant will buy glucose and cholesterol strips, which are very important for helping the patients," said Director Joy Loper. "The grant is extremely beneficial because the cost of supplies has increased significantly and pharmaceutical companies no longer give away free products as much as they used to."

The Health for Friends Clinic will also use the funds to purchase a television and educational DVDs on high blood pressure, hypertension and diabetes.

"All we have now is an old, partially functioning TV and VHS player," said Loper. "We are so grateful to receive this grant for all the help it will provide to improve our patients' health."

The Health for Friends clinic is an affiliated ministry of Lutheran Social Services. LSS is the social service arm of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. LSS affiliated ministries serve more than 35,000 children, elderly and poor in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi regardless of religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender or age. Its ministries include emergency assistance, therapeutic foster care, adoption, children's residential treatment centers, disaster response, senior health care, retirement communities and adult day care.

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