Community Health Centers such as Wallace offer a road map to better health and well-being for communities throughout our nation. That’s been true for over 50 years.
America’s Health Centers were born of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960’s, when a group of determined activists waged a fight to improve the lives of people living in poverty, who desperately needed health care. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s wide-ranging War on Poverty initiatives gave these health care pioneers their opportunity. Their proposals to establish health centers in medically underserved urban and rural communities bore fruit with the approval of funding in 1965 for the nation’s first two Health Centers—in Mound Bayou, Mississippi and Boston, Massachusetts.
The Community Health Center movement has never looked back, exceeding the wildest expectations of those early activists. We are not just healers, we are innovators who look beyond medical charts to address the factors that may cause poor health, such as poverty, homelessness, substance use, mental illness, lack of nutrition, trauma, unemployment and social inequities. Collectively we provide care to nearly 30 million underserved patients throughout the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. Wallace is proud to be among them.
The Community Health Center movement has never looked back, exceeding the wildest expectations of those early activists. We are not just healers, we are innovators who look beyond medical charts to address the factors that may cause poor health, such as poverty, homelessness, substance use, mental illness, lack of nutrition, trauma, unemployment and social inequities. Collectively we provide care to more than 29 million underserved patients throughout the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. Wallace is proud to be among them.
At the center of our celebration this year will be our Back-to-School Health Fair on Thursday, August 10 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Rockwood Market Hall and Plaza, 18535 SE Stark Street.
Wallace is teaming up with our good partners Multnomah County Community Health Center, and East County Community Health to offer a day of free health services, community resources, give-away items, food and fun.
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