Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they decided to act. With the encouragement of Cambridge Hospital officials and other social service agencies, they formally requested the hospital to open a neighborhood health clinic in North Cambridge...
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...
...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...
...Cambridge Neighborhood Health Centers are not without problems. Most important, many of them are severely underutilized. The clinics are a relatively new phenomenon and many neighborhood residents still think they must go to a hospital for good health care. Other residents believe the clinics are only for the poor. To combat these false beliefs, the clinics and community groups are starting publicity campaigns to spread the word about the available services to all Cambridge residents...