PCDC Founding Board Member Highlights Need for Primary Care to Keep Communities Healthy

| By Maura Harris
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Access to primary care is key to preserving the health and wellbeing of communities of color, according to PCDC founding board member David R. Jones, Esq. in a recent article published in Amsterdam News. The piece highlighted how the mission PCDC was founded to fulfill 25 years ago is still of great importance today: to …

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A Blueprint for Equity: Q&A with PCDC Founders

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Primary Care Prioneers
As with many storied partnerships, a crisis brought together Ronda Kotelchuck and David R. Jones. Each was already renowned: Kotelchuck, for her civil rights work and primary care advocacy; Jones, for tackling urban poverty as President and CEO of the Community Service Society (CSS) of New York. Then came CSS’ urgent 1990 report about New York City’s …

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In Conversation with a Pioneer: Dr. Jack Geiger

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Today community health centers serve 27 million patients at 10,000 sites across the country — all based on a concept that Dr. Jack Geiger created in the 1960s in rural Mississippi. At the Founders Reception on November 16, PCDC saluted Dr. Geiger for his pioneering work and lifelong insistence that health care is a basic …

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