Replication Workshops

Start a Charitable Clinic in Your Community
  • Have you ever thought about starting a faith-based health care ministry?
  • Do you feel called to begin your own ministry but don’t know where to start?
  • Are you involved in an active ministry and looking for ways to share ideas and concerns with others doing similar work?

Hear firsthand how Church Health grew from a small clinic serving the working uninsured to a national leader in the faith and health movement.

Replication Workshops at Church Health Memphis
Play Video

About ECHO

Church Health is partnered with Empowering Church Health Outreach (ECHO) to extend the Replication experience for safety-net clinic founders and operators who want a full-time, faith-based medical clinic. ECHO is a not-for-profit organization based in Memphis, Tennessee, as a ministry of Church Health. ECHO provides free or low-cost consulting services to churches, clinic founders, and existing clinic working to provide primary care to the uninsured and underserved. ECHO is committed to helping clinic founders start, grow, and sustain their clinics; connecting founders and operators with their area faith communities as a core function.

replication1

About the Workshops

Part of Church Health’s mission is to assist others in creating and expanding ministries of their own. Our Replication Workshops help people across the nation move from visions to actions. Replication workshops are held three times a year at Church Health and consist of two, half-day sessions.

The workshop includes a complete tour of our facilities, a meeting with Church Health founder and CEO Dr. Scott Morris and training by Church Health staff and leadership.

Participants also have roundtable discussions with Church Health and staff about:

  • Determining the need for a clinic in your community
  • Expanding your existing clinic to meet the growing need in your community
  • The logistics of running a faith-based clinic
  • Developing a business plan
  • Best practices in fundraising and public relations
  • The logistics of running a faith-based clinic
  • Recruiting volunteers and effectively using their talents
  • Ways to engage the faith community
  • The most important lessons learned from Church Health

Learn the nuts and bolts about fundraising, clinical operations, opening your clinic, and developing a great volunteer program

Meaningful activities leading to an opportunity to share your vision

Tour Church Health’s original 1210 Peabody clinic and its new facility at Crosstown Concourse

Work with Church Health staff to identify your next steps

Network with others in your cohort

Be inspired by the vision and purpose of Church Health

Attend Replication

2023 Replication Dates

March 28 and 29, 2023.
Workshop begins at 9 a.m. central time on March 28.  
If you have any questions, please contact Marcy Stagner at stagnerm@churchhealth.org or 901-701-2320.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:
  • Build camaraderie using identified challenges and opportunities expressed by your Replication Workshop cohort
  • Understand the significance of relationship building within your community and internal planning group
  • Learn to develop an impactful message and communication strategies
  • Increase your level of inspiration to start or expand your charitable care ministry 
  • Increase your level of confidence to start or expand your charitable care ministry 
  • Assess your next steps using practical tools learned at the Replication Workshop

Please contact Marcy Stagner at stagnerm@churchhealth.org or 901-701-2320 if you have any immediate questions.

Church Health Scholars - Refferals

Curriculum

Our clinic-development curriculum includes:

Orientation to the program, including terminology, mission and goals, and introduction to Church Health, and questions that give you an opportunity to reflect on your calling.

Module 1: Exploring

In the first module of the curriculum, you’ll be advised on everything you need to consider before you serve your first patient. In addition to being informative, this module is designed to help you clarify your vision and make decisions necessary to establish your charitable healthcare practice.

Module 2: Developing

The second module of the curriculum is designed to get your charitable clinic open and serving patients. In addition to our consultants, this information can serve as a checklist for everything that needs to happen to start your healthcare practice.

Module 3: Implementing

The final module of the curriculum will help you manage the first days of your clinic’s opening by planning for the future. It’s never too early to start thinking ahead, and this information will help prepare your clinic for viable, long-term success.