Courtesy New Haven Museum
In 1972, the Fair Haven Clinic (now knows as the Fair Haven Community Health Center) had been open for a year, operating two nights a week in a crowded corridor of the local elementary school. At the time there were only two medical doctors for Fair Haven’s population increasingly of newly arrived Puerto Rican immigrants, all told numbering 16,000 people. Welcome to This Day In Free Health Care History as your host Allan Appel and the New Haven Museum’s Jason Bischoff-Wurstle take you back.
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For a look at how the clinic (now “center”) has grown today into a thriving provider of health care in the area, read this story or click on the above interview with the current CEO, Suzanne Lagarde.
