The Greater Lawrence Family Health Center is one of more than 900 community health centers providing medical care in isolated and impoverished areas across the country. Prior to GLFHC's establishment in 1980, the indigent and the uninsured living in Lawrence and neighboring communities had few...
The Greater Lawrence Family Health Center is one of more than 900 community health centers providing medical care in isolated and impoverished areas across the country. Prior to GLFHC's establishment in 1980, the indigent and the uninsured living in Lawrence and neighboring communities had few health care alternatives. Consequently, Lawrence lagged behind the rest of Massachusetts on virtually all health status indicators. GLFHC provides primary health care to 42,000 patients from Lawrence and the neighboring communities of Haverhill, Andover, North Andover, Methuen, Tewksbury, and Salem, New Hampshire. GLFHC operates four neighborhood clinics in Lawrence, two school-based health centers, and the only federally funded Health Care for the Homeless program in the Merrimack Valley. (more)