Community Health Partners Regional Foundation history

1960 Glencoe Medical Clinic opened as a cooperative of independent private-practice physicians.

In 1965, the Community Health Center program is launched in the United States, based on an approach to care developed in South Africa that directly addressed the community conditions that drive health outcomes.

1967 Glencoe Hospital acquired Glenhaven Nursing Home.

1977 Glencoe Medical Clinic, PA, established a physician partnership.

1984 Glencoe Area Health Center was created.

1996 Rebecca Onie launches Project HEALTH at Boston Medical Center, where college volunteer advocates staff “Help Desks” to fill patient “prescriptions” for essential resources like food and housing assistance.

2000 Glencoe Regional Health was formed through the merger of Glencoe Area Health Center and Glencoe Medical Clinic, PA.

On July 1, 2004 The Community Hospital and Mercy Health System Western Ohio merged to form one regional healthcare system affiliated with Mercy Health.

2007 In a landmark moment for the “whole person” care movement, several of the country’s most prominent healthcare foundations jointly define coordinated care to include integration “across the patient’s community (e.g., family, public and private community-based services).”

The former Community Hospital Independent Endowment Fund (CHIEF) merged into CHF on January 1, 2009.

The new hospital opened November 13, 2011 as Springfield Regional Medical Center (SRMC).

2012 Health Leads founder Rebecca Onie urges us to “redefine what counts as healthcare.” Her TED Talk has been viewed over a million times since.

2014 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commits $16M, their largest single organization philanthropic committment to date, to advance Health Leads' vision.

2015 One of the first clinically-validated studies of a social needs program (Health Leads at Massachusetts General Hospital) identifies a significant link between meeting patients’ resource needs and improved health outcomes.

2018 In partnership with NYC Health and Hospitals, Health Leads launches a first of its kind WIC connection initiative deploying community health workers.