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Month: May 2012

Community Health Center, Inc. Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Community Health Center, Inc. Celebrates 40th Anniversary

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (May 1, 2012) – The Community Health Center, Inc., a state-wide primary care center specializing in the underserved and uninsured, is celebrating its 40th anniversary today, May 1st.   From its beginnings in a 2nd floor walk-up in Middletown in 1972, the Community Health Center has grown to serve more than 130,000 patients at over 200 locations across Connecticut, with medical, dental, and behavioral health care, with more than 500 staff and providers. “In the early 70’s, we were…

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Today, May 1st, CHC Turns 40

Today, May 1st, CHC Turns 40

Here is a letter to all the friends of Community Health Center, on the occasion of our 40th Anniversary: Dear Friends, Forty years ago today, May 1st, a group of Wesleyan University students and Middletown community activists came together under the banner that Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege. We were drawn together because our friends, family and neighbors needed health care that was accessible, affordable and responsive to their needs. It wasn’t an easy road; there were no…

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