Primary Health

Federally Qualified Health Centers have been the backbone of the healthcare safety-net provider system in the United States for over 40 years. Also known as Community Health Centers, they are responsible for serving the uninsured and underinsured residents of urban and rural communities across the Nation. 

Banyan Community Health Center was founded by Miami Behavioral Health Center, Spectrum Programs, and Banyan Health Systems to substantially improve access to healthcare in Greater Miami.   It is funded by annual grants from the Health Resources & Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Care Health at the US Department of Health & Human Services, to ensure that all members of our community have access to the highest standards of prevention and medical care.

Our approach to primary health services is personal and comprehensive.  Banyan’s founders, Miami Behavioral Health Center and Spectrum Programs, are leading regional providers of treatment for co-occurring mental health and addiction disorders, and in the integration of primary healthcare services into the behavioral health treatment standard. Our unique history in behavioral health gives us specialized capacity for integrating emerging research, evidence-supported practices, and newer treatment methodologies across mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring physical health disorders, resulting in better health for individuals and for families and communities.

We bring this comprehensive, interdisciplinary, thoughtfully integrated approach to healthcare all of our programs and services and to the service philosophy of the physicians and care teams at Banyan Community Health Center, where we work to provide:

• Timely diagnosis and treatment of disease, including infectious diseases, chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV, and other health disorders.
• Prevention of more serious and later stage forms of disease through early identification and treatment.
• Better coordination of treatment for the complex interactions of behavioral and physical health conditions in an integrated, medical home model of care, leading to improved overall health, wellness, and quality of life for consumers and families in our care.
• Enhanced access to essential primary health services in medically underserved communities and among medically underserved populations in South Florida, with the goal of operating at recognized levels of community need and at level-of-service standards established by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
• Meaningful coordination of care with medical specialists, other health service providers, and hospitals in order to achieve the highest possible access to quality health services on behalf of our consumers.

At Banyan Health Systems, we are dedicated to being among the most effective providers of integrated healthcare services.   As Founders of Banyan Community Health Center, we support  BCHC and all of Banyan’s programs and services with research into effective approaches to human health that helps to make the processes and procedures of behavioral and primary health services more successful, the timelines to improved health and well-being shorter, and the gains more sustainable, substantially reducing the catastrophic personal, family, and societal consequences that often accompany the current standard of healthcare management.