Community Health

Community Hospital South

Community health centers provide care for 1 in 10 Americans, but funding cuts threaten their survival

Bay Area Community Health - Alameda Health Consortium

With roots in the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty, the nation's first Community Health Centers were founded nearly 60 years ago in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and Boston. Visionary community activists and reform-minded physicians who believed healthcare was a human right worked to establish health centers with the goals of fighting poverty, advancing health equity, and changing lives. Today, health centers are the largest primary care network in the United States, serving 32.5 million