45 Years of Makin
1960s A s major meat packing plants moved out of South Omaha, the once thriving stockyards were now empty – leaving families to face financial hardship, especially Hispanics. As Hispanic leaders worried about their community, Native American leaders were working to address the unmet health care needs of the Urban Indian community, many of whom lived in the same neighborhoods. They came together with members of Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Creighton University Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, and Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries, and worked diligently to find solutions. Their efforts resulted in the founding of the Indian Chicano Health Center, and over the coming decades, evolving into OneWorld Health Centers. Now, 45 years later, in that same stockyards location is the heart and main campus of the OneWorld family of clinics.
1970s
I n the spring of 1970, in the donated basement space of the former parsonage of Gethsemane Lutheran Church at 20 th and Castelar, the Indian Chicano Health Center provided its first medical and dental screenings. Volunteer physicians and students from Creighton University’s dental, nursing, medical and pharmaceutical schools; Clarkson College of Nursing; and the University of Nebraska Medical Center provided staffing. The clinic incorporated as a nonprofit in 1973 and received United Way funding in 1974.
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