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>> welcome to all of you, to those who are virtual and who are attendees. i am senior vice president here at the urban institute. to begin, the urban institute wants to acknowledge that washington, d.c. is a traditional territory of the people. we want to acknowledge the colonialization of our nation, community, and research organization while simultaneously benefiting from that same colonization. we will talk about that dichotomy and so much more during the symposium. as we talk about the ways to remedy unequal treatment, we must go back in history to some of the first policies and ...

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By WHAV Staff | Dr. Guy Fish is president and CEO of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. (Courtesy photograph.) Dr. Guy Fish has been named as the new president and CEO of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, which operates primary care centers and pharmacies in Lawrence, Haverhill and Methuen. Fish’s extensive health care experience as a physician and consultant in numerous executive leadership roles encompasses both the for-profit and nonprofit health care sectors. “The board is pleased to be able to draw on Guy’s significant history of leadership and innovation to guide our hea...

A federally-funded clinic in rural Mississippi embodies the history of community health centers in the U.S., and shows how these safety-net clinics can help minority patients during the pandemic.

/ Mitch Williams, 85, one of the first patients to be seen at the Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Miss. poses inside of the center’s museum, March 3, 2021. In the 1960s, health care for Black residents in rural Mississippi was practically non-existent. While some hospitals served Black patients, they struggled to stay afloat; most options were segregated. During the height of the civil rights movement, young Black doctors decided to launch a movement of their own. “Mississippi was third-world and was so bad and so separated. The community health center movement was the conduit for ph...