Community Engagement
A healthy hospital
leads to a healthy
community
Creating Healthy Futures
Avem Health Partners believes in engaging with the communities
where the hospitals are located, creating healthy futures and
thriving economies.
Prevention Services
Avem Health Partners goes beyond expectations and keeps the community healthy with a variety of prevention services.
We invest in people and programs to create a healthier environment for the hospital and our communities.
AVEM has preventative healthcare strategies designed to keep you well and fit.
Prevention Strategies
- Tai Chi
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Chronic Disease Self-Management
Avem Health Partners believes in empowering people to increase the control they have over their health by improving health literacy and encouraging healthy behaviors. Contact the Avem Health Partner managed facility nearest you for more information about disease prevention classes.
Community Education
- GED Classes
- Financial Literacy
- Career Counseling
Health is bigger than having access to providers and medications. Health also includes community factors that influence a person's ability to make healthy choices. AVEM believes well informed people are healthy people. Contact the Avem Health Partner managed facility nearest you for information about community education classes.
Community Services
- Meals on Wheels
- Auxillians
- Chaplain Program
- Community Development
Avem Health Partners uses a variety of strategies that address every day needs while providing opportunities to become involved in the life of the hospital. Contact the Avem Health Partner managed facility nearest you for more information about how you can volunteer and become involved.
Community Events
- Community Summit
- Dinner and Learn
Open dialogue and engaged communities is one way Avem Health Partners develops long lasting relationships and improves the health of its partners. Contact the Avem Health Partners managed facility nearest you for more information about how you can become engaged in improving the health of your community.
Community Investment
Our services stabilize and grow hospitals while also investing in the community.
Playing in the shade promotes summertime fun
AVEM is helping our children beat the heat and avoid damaging ultra-violet rays with new sunshade over playground equipment at Foster Park in Stroud, Oklahoma. One less excuse for not "getting off the couch".
Avem Health Partners Donates New Command Vehicle To Stroud Fire Department
Avem Health Partners, donated a truck to Stroud Fire Department.The fully equipped Ford F-150 will serve as the new command post for incident responses which the department has been without since losing one in a wildfire in 2020.
Meeting a basic need
Avem Health Partners helped the Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma in responding to food insecurity issues of the Fairfax region. AVEM made similar contributions to assist areas served by its partners in Stroud and Anadarko.
Standing along side those in Blue
AVEM funded the purchase of new bullet proof vests for Lincoln County’s Sheriff’s Department. Providing some peace of mind for the families living the “thin blue line”.
Ed Dyer CEO of Rural Wellness Stroud Hospital delivers $2,500 check to the Stroud Food Bank to help supply food boxes to local residents
Click here to read thank you letter from the City of Ralston, Oklahoma
Avem Health Partners supplies 148 cases of water to the Town of Ralston to address lack of water after town water pipeline ruptured during subzero temperatures.
Avem Health Partners helps sponsor Pawnee School District’s spring musical with a $2,100 donation to the Theater Department.
