by Kevin ONeill | May 6, 2016
From community organizer to CEO of community health centers, Bill Hobson has been a force for change in this country, bringing affordable health care to those who need it most. It all started in 1968. As a community organizer for the West End Community Council in the...
by Kevin ONeill | May 6, 2016
When Virgilio Licona founded and was named director of La Clinica del Valle, now known as Valley Wide Clinic in Rocky Ford, Colorado in 1973,it was by virtue of his work as a community organizer that he recognized the need for health services in the area. He had no...
by Kevin ONeill | Jan 15, 2016
Donna Thompson was hired by the Access Community Health Network in 1995 to help turn the network around. Then known as Sinai Family Health, the network had nine sites centered in Chicago’s inner-city areas, had only one grant and was losing money, and was not meeting...
by Kevin ONeill | Dec 11, 2015
Robin Curtis applied for a job at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers only because they had an opening and she wanted to leave the job where she was working at the time. “I had never heard of community health centers,” Curtis said. “I had no idea what...
by Kevin ONeill | Oct 28, 2015
Born to serve at a community health center It’s an accomplishment when anyone endures in a challenging job for a long period of time. But the more one talks to Dr. Carol Klein, the less remarkable it seems that she has served as a physician at Piedmont Health Services...
