Center for Hope and Healing

Our funding:

The Center for Hope and Healing has run 100% on donations and volunteers since our founding in January 2012 as a free medical clinic and through our expansion to a free dental clinic in 2017. This generous sharing of the time, treasure, and talent of our benefactors is essential. Without them we cannot offer our visitors the spiritual, emotional, and physical aid they seek. With them, we can be a bridge to wellness and well being.

We respect our supporters by using their resources wisely, and we respect our clients by honoring their individual dignity, one on one, just as God made each of them. Because of our commitment to uphold the teachings of the Catholic Church without exception, we do not accept government funding and its restrictions. We choose instead to support the life and the dignity of every human person, born and unborn, regardless of age, sex, race, or religious affiliation.

Our Work

We had our 5th birthday! The Center for Hope and Healing is the only free medical clinic in Northern Kentucky for uninsured individuals who are not homeless, and March 24, 2017, is the launch date for the only free dental clinic in the region.

Since opening the medical clinic on January 24, 2012, we have called it “God’s Clinic” because He provides everything we need. For example, the night before opening our Women's Wellness room, the examination table and equipment were all in place, but the clinic director suddenly realized, "Oh, no! We have no gowns for women to wear! How can we start without them?" She locked up and went home — and the next day a box filled with exam gowns was sitting next to her desk. (To this day no one knows where they came from.)

The Friday dental clinic launches with three fully equipped and licensed operatories, three months of supplies on hand, and three volunteer dental teams lined up to rotate through, serving 20 patients each clinic day. All this was accomplished through the astonishing generosity of donors large and small, who contributed funds, new and used equipment, supplies, labor, and materials to meet this urgent need.

We look forward to seeing many new smiles!

Center for H&H Numbers for 2016

1,854 Health Ministry Visits
482 Individuals
239 new clients

Medical Clinic

710 Visits
209 Individuals
102 new clients
795 Prescriptions paid
393 Laboratory tests
65 Hemoglobin A1C tests
61 boxes of diabetic strips
22 diabetes meters
25 EKGs
5 Ultrasounds
145 bus passes given for other medical appointments

Tobacco Cessation Program

Many people desire to quit using tobacco products but lack motivation and support. Among the clients of our medical clinic, 56% use tobacco at great cost to their health, risk of early death, for pregnant women risk of low birth weight for their babies.

We provide counseling, education, and nicotine replacement patches. One man achieved 100% class attendance. Please pray with us that he maintains his new, healthier lifestyle.

Other Programs

The volunteer staff and professionals of the health ministry, medical clinic, and dental clinic offer a broad range of services beyond diagnostic screening and assistance: counseling, food, clothing, baby care needs, parenting classes, drug and alcohol dependency counseling, professional therapy, and spiritual loving care.

Center for Hope and Healing Tobacco Cessation Class

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Clinic Hours

Health ministry hours:Tuesdays 11-3.
Clinic hours:Tuesday 9:30 - 2:30 and Wednesday 11-3:30.
We are located at 2020 Madison Ave.,Covington, KY.
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Phone:Medical and dental 859-261-0323
Fax: 859-261-0434
Sheila Carroll : Clinic Executive Director
Leah Britt : Dental Clininc Director

The Friends of the Rose Garden Mission are dedicated to the right to life from conception until natural death for all people and to improving the quality of life of the less fortunate in the Northern KY, Greater Cincinnati area, showing the love of Jesus while providing a haven of hope and free non-judgmental assistance by supporting the apostolic works of the Franciscan Daughters of Mary, maintaining the property which houses the Rose Garden Home Mission and their Center for Hope and Healing.

“I am so grateful to the Friends for their ingenuity and commitment to the Rose Garden Home Mission.”
~ Mother Seraphina

Ten Star Rating

Theresa Furnish, APRN and Sue Mills, APRN prepare to test Marvin Mukes’ glucose level.

As far as Marvin Mukes is concerned, the uninsured can’t put a price tag on the healthcare provided at the Rose Garden Center for Hope and Healing. “If you could give (the clinic) stars, it wouldn’t be five stars. I’d give them 10,” he said. “I will get my insurance card soon, but I’d like to stay here.”

Marvin Mukes is a patient who was terrified when doctors informed him a few months ago that he had diabetes. “I cried,” admits the 54-year-old husband, father and grandfather who lives in Newport. “I don’t have insurance. I didn’t want to die.” Although Mr. Mukes was used to suffering from an unhealthy heart, several of his relatives had died from diabetic complications. One relative had a leg amputated. “I knew something was wrong with me one day at church,” Mr. Mukes said. “I stood up to talk and when I sat back down, I couldn’t see the pastor’s face. The minister was standing right in front of me, but he was blurry. I told my significant other (Barbara) I needed to get to the emergency room.”

Barbara drove Mr. Mukes to St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Ft. Thomas, where he was told his blood glucose level was extremely high. Doctors prescribed Insulin and medicine to control his blood sugar level. The unemployed man worried how he would be able to afford the medicine and the price of monitoring his blood glucose level. “

A Nurse Navigator for St. Elizabeth Healthcare Regional Diabetes Center who is also a Mission volunteer talked to Mukes before he was dismissed from the hospital and "made me promise to come to the Rose Garden Center for Hope and Healing," Mukes recalls. “I kept my promise.”

He has never regretted it. “I don’t want to leave this place, even when I get my insurance card. I told the nurse practitioner here to give me a call and I’ll be down to take out the trash or anything.” Becoming very emotional, he added, “I didn’t know people could care like this for people,” and had to wipe away the tears as they flowed down his face. “I love this place.”

Sheila Carroll (Clinic Executive Director)

Since Mother first brought her Franciscan Daughters of Mary to Northern Kentucky in 2009, the Rose Garden has become a conduit for the generosity of benefactors throughout the region and beyond in order to help those who come to our doors in need of aid. From its start helping mothers and young children and making home visits for health and material assistance, the Rose Garden blossomed into a food pantry, health clinic, and a now a dental clinic. This is surely the work of God!

We always are able to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit on Health Screening Tuesdays, when our Mission friends and neighbors come to have their blood pressure checked and their diabetes monitored with finger-stick glucose. However, we really do much more than that. Many Tuesdays the Spirit of God is so present in the consultation room that it is almost palpable in the air.

We have from one to five healthcare professionals engaged with new friends who are in physical, medical, or spiritual need. Our one-on-one policy ensures unhurried, loving care for each of them, honoring their dignity as brothers and sisters in Christ. Tenderness is a unique touch from God just for them, affirming His spiritual love as we tend their physical needs.