Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers


Click the image to learn more. Since opening in 1969, the Sixteenth Street Community Health Care Centers have expanded to eight locations throughout the Greater Milwaukee area. Their Chavez Drive location is pictured here.

 

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers (SSCHC) have provided free and affordable health care services to low-income patients since 1969.[1] That year, neighborhood organizers opened a small, volunteer-run health clinic at the corner of South 16th Street and West Greenfield Avenue.[2] Since its earliest days, SSCHC has worked to serve the needs of the South Side’s growing Spanish-speaking population through a variety of bilingual services.[3] SSCHC now provides health care, education, and social services to tens of thousands of patients annually at locations throughout Milwaukee’s south side and in the neighboring city of Waukesha.[4]

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  1. ^ “The History of Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers,” Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, accessed September 8, 2013; Amrita Aulakh, “Neighborhood Health Clinics Growing Busier: One Community-Based Center Has Seen 400% Jump in Visits since 1990,” Milwaukee Journal, September 19, 1994; “Free Health Physicals,” La Guardia, June 1970.
  2. ^ Health Organization for Public Ethics, 16th Street Community Health Center: Health Care, Education, Counseling, Advocacy [pamphlet] (Milwaukee, WI: 1977); Health Organization for Public Ethics, 16th Street Community Health Center 1977 Annual Report (Milwaukee, WI: 1977); Tom Held, “Latino Numbers Booming,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 11, 2005; “Cumunal Clinicas de Salud del Sul,” La Guardia, December 1971; “The History of Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers,” Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, accessed September 8, 2013.
  3. ^ Health Organization for Public Ethics, 16th Street Community Health Center: Health Care, Education, Counseling, Advocacy [pamphlet] (Milwaukee, WI: 1977); Health Organization for Public Ethics, 16th Street Community Health Center 1977 Annual Report (Milwaukee, WI: 1977); Tom Held, “Latino Numbers Booming,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 11, 2005; “Cumunal Clinicas de Salud del Sul,” La Guardia, December 1971; “The History of Sixteenth Street Community Health Center,” Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, accessed September 8, 2013.
  4. ^ “Locations,” Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, accessed September 23, 2013; Tom Held, “Latino Numbers Booming,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 11, 2005; “The History of Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers,” Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, accessed September 8, 2013; Amrita Aulakh, “For Young, Old Patients, Clinic Is the Family Doctor,” Milwaukee Journal, September 19, 1994; Amrita Aulakh, “Neighborhood Health Clinics Growing Busier: One Community-Based Center Has Seen 400% Jump in Visits Since 1990,” Milwaukee Journal, September 19, 1994.

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