{"id":11183,"date":"2024-10-17T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T23:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehearinginstitute.org\/?page_id=11183"},"modified":"2024-12-06T18:34:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T23:34:49","slug":"building-foundations-amplifying-futures-a-capital-campaign-for-the-heuser-hearing-institute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thehearinginstitute.org\/building-foundations-amplifying-futures-a-capital-campaign-for-the-heuser-hearing-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Foundations, Amplifying Futures: A Capital Campaign for the Heuser Hearing Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Founded in 1948, the Heuser Hearing Institute (HHI) is the only non-profit organization in the Greater Louisville and Southern Indiana region providing access to world-class and comprehensive hearing, speech, language and balance disorder services. Through the powerful combination of a hearing healthcare clinic, a preschool and kindergarten program for children with communication disorders regardless of a patient\u2019s ability to pay and now KY HEARS statewide access to mobile and permanent hearing screening facilities, HHI offers a unique continuum of care for all ages \u2013 from diagnosis to treatment across the lifespan from childhood into adulthood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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At the heart of the HHI service model is the downtown Louisville clinic, the only facility in the area completely dedicated to hearing healthcare. The HHI clinic is Kentucky\u2019s largest nonprofit pediatric audiology provider, one of the largest cochlear implant service sites and one of the largest Medicaid hearing healthcare providers. The clinic was originally established to sustain academic and clinical care for the Heuser Hearing & Language Academy. Many are not aware, however, that proceeds from the clinic directly benefit the school. The clinic is the revenue engine for the entire HHI system. Without it, the Heuser Hearing & Language Academy could not provide the no cost tuition and services nor could we support our various satellite clinic locations throughout the Greater Louisville and Southern Indiana area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Due to the rising cost of hearing healthcare, low reimbursement rates and a large influx of children in need, HHI has self-funded its Pediatric Program for two decades. Unfortunately, this left no funds for capital expenditures and facility updates for the clinic. Since 2001, HHI has been operating at its downtown location in a former elementary school built in 1886 and the team has made it work but we now must renovate our patient care facilities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, capacity and access. We remain committed to our downtown location and the access we provide to our underserved neighborhoods with a significant percentage of patients and students coming from the most economically disadvantaged zip codes in the Greater Louisville and Southern Indiana region. It is time to redesign and upgrade outdated facilities to reflect the high level of services HHI is already providing while also allowing us to build a sound foundation for the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Our Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our goal is to provide the highest quality of hearing healthcare, and to achieve this, we need facilities that are up-to-date and fully equipped to meet the diverse needs of our patients of all ages. We envision a modernized space where patients \u201cfrom twinkle to wrinkle\u201d can receive worldclass healthcare, and where our multidisciplinary team of experts can utilize cutting-edge technologies to deliver holistic, patient-centered care, all under one roof. We seek to deliver our services more effectively and efficiently, increasing capacity and access. By renovating and updating approximately 20,000 square feet of our patient care facilities on the downtown campus, the goal is to serve 30% more children, adults and seniors than we do today. Increased clinical capacity will in turn increase funds available to the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other key benefits to the community will include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n