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Healthreach Community Health company history timeline

1901

The historian John Duffy explains that the concept of community health care and community health care centers can be traced back to 1901; when milk stations for infants in the New York City were established as the first step for the health of the public.

1914

In November of 1914, New York City witnessed the establishment of the city’s first district health care center at 206 Madison Avenue.

1960

The very first was an amendment to the Social Security Act in the year 1960 – which happened through the enactment of the Kerr-Mills measure – and endowed states with a subsidy for those who were medically impoverished.

1975

In 1975, our first community health center opened in Bingham, Maine and served 7 patients.

1990

On the 25th anniversary of the clinic, in 1990, it was renamed the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center and is still in operation today.

1999

In July 1999, HRCHC became a separate independent company when MaineGeneral Health purchased the homecare, behavioral health and support departments of HRN.

2002

President George W. Bush, in 2002, launched a Health Center Expansion Program that led to an increase in the access to basic health care services in about 1,200 communities by establishing new and bigger health center clinics.

2008

It was in the year 2008 that 1,080 CHCs gave primary health care to a population of more than 17.1 million people.

The Health Care Safety Net Act of 2008 gave the health centers program the expectation of extending the program by 50% over four years.

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