August 10, 2015
By: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, HHS Secretary
Fifty years ago, two small health clinics – one in the countryside of Mississippi and one in the city blocks of South Boston – decided to try something novel. They were the pioneers of the Health Center Program, launched in 1965 as a demonstration project of the War on Poverty. Those two health centers committed to providing high-quality health care to residents in their community, regardless of their patients’ ability to pay.
Today, the Health Center Program has blossomed into a national primary care network of over 1,300 health centers in communities across America, including my hometown of Hinton, West Virginia. These health centers care for nearly 23 million individuals who live in areas where there aren’t enough doctors, hospitals and other providers to care for the population. That’s 1 in every 14 people living in the United States.
READ MORE: The Health Center Program: Serving America’s Communities for 50 YearsToday, the Health Center Program has blossomed into a national primary care network of over 1,300 health centers in communities across America, including my hometown of Hinton, West Virginia. These health centers care for nearly 23 million individuals who live in areas where there aren’t enough doctors, hospitals and other providers to care for the population. That’s 1 in every 14 people living in the United States.
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