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Community health centers mark 44-year anniversary

12-22-09 Feature Story:

The nation's community health centers are 44 years old this month - and it all started at Columbia Point in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

  • Click here to watch a 1966 video-documentary on the work of H. Jack Geiger, MD, the founder of the first two community health centers: Columbia Point Health Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts (December, 1965) and Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi (December, 1966).
  • Click here to read a written history of health centers.