Word: health
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the North Cambridge clinic may be one of the most conspicuous successes of grass-roots community organizing for health care in the city, it is only one of ten neighborhood health centers now operating in Cambridge...
...Cambridge Health Centers act as neighborhood branches of the Cambridge Hospital. They are staffed by teams of physicians, nurse practitioners, health aides, nutritionists, family planning counselors, social workers, psychiatrists, financial counselors and receptionists...
...These health care teams provide a wide range of medical services. The North Cambridge Clinic, for example, offers physical examinations, obstetrics, gynecology, family planning, nutritional and psychiatric counseling, as well as pediatric services...
...Cambridge Department of Health and Hospitals supports the clinics, which also receive other public and private agencies...
...goal of the system is to offer quality health care in a neighborhood setting. It specifically attempts to bring services to the areas of the city which a recent Department of Health, Education and Welfare study found to be medically underserved--North Cambridge and the area between Central Square and MIT along Main...