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Since the nation's first health Community Health Centers opened in 1965, expansion of the federally supported health center system to over 1,400 organizations has created an affordable health care option for more than 30 million people.

The official establishment of community health centers was caused by the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) established what was initially called "neighborhood health centers" as a War on Poverty demonstration program.

1965: The first Community Health Centers (then called “Neighborhood Health Centers”) are funded as demonstration programs under the federal Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO).

What services are provided at community health centers? Primary care. Family planning. Preventative care services. Behavioral healthcare. Laboratory testing. Dental care. Women's care. Internal medicine.

Community health centers offered health care to marginalized communities, particularly Black Americans who hospitalized often did not serve. At a meeting in late 1964, Geiger proposed the idea of community health centers as a means of providing the community-based primary care that the community desperately needed.

It was in December 1965 when the first modern community health center was established in Dorchester, Massachusetts – under the name, Columbia Point Health Center – by two faculty members and medical doctors, H. Jack Geiger of Harvard University and Count Gibson of Tufts University.

Consider the following five evidence-based approaches to improving access to health care. Expand Insurance to Cover Health Care Costs. ... Extend Telehealth Services. ... Invest in Mobile Clinics. ... Educate the Public About Multiple Health Care Sites. ... Improve Cultural Responsiveness.