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 It is with great pride I announce Northeast Community Clinics has been assigned “330” status by the Federal Government’s Human Resources & Services Administration (HRSA). This designation gives our organization greater opportunity for growth and service throughout the Los Angeles region, especially in the Wilmington-San Pedro area.
With the 330 designation, NECC will provide an additional 40 new jobs and plans to serve approximately 4,500 patients in the next two years.
Headquartered in Alhambra, NECC has 11 clinics in the Los Angeles communities of Highland Park, Hawthorne, Bell, Wilmington, Watts and downtown and South Los Angeles. Founded in 1971 as one of the original free clinics, NECC saw 33,858 (unduplicated) patients during 117,217 visits last year.
Health centers, primary care and prevention are at the heart of President Obama’s plan for an affordable, accessible, health care system.
Like NECC, these health centers will expand access to care by helping people in need -- many with no health insurance -- obtain access to comprehensive primary and preventive health care services. And that helps relieve the burden on emergency rooms across the country that have become primary care clinics for too many that lack coverage, often at taxpayer expense.
The mission of Northeast Community Clinics is to provide comprehensive, quality health care in a linguistically competent and culturally sensitive manner to patients, regardless of their ability to pay, in the indigent communities of Los Angeles.
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