Accessible Healthcare: Neighborhood Clinics

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In spring 2003, a new health clinic opened in the Community and Family Life Center at Lyon Park. Response to the convenient location was so strong — especially from the growing Hispanic community — that the next fall the number of exam rooms and health caregivers was doubled. Another community health clinic — this one at the edge of the Walltown neighborhood — began seeing patients in fall 2004.

Neighbors served: Any Durham resident, but particularly those in West End, Walltown and partnership neighborhoods

Partners: Duke's Dept. of Community and Family Medicine, Lincoln Community Health Center, Calvary Ministries of the WestEnd Inc., Walltown Neighborhood Ministries

Duke contact: Susan Yaggy at (919) 681-3188 or yaggy002@mc.duke.edu