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1980s
I n November 1990, the Board of Directors hired the first executive director, Sr. Mary Kay Meagher, APRN. Dr. Dan Dietrich generously volunteered to serve as the inaugural medical director. The agency was now positioned to partner with others in the community to add new services, including: an immunization clinic, which evolved into a child health clinic; lab services for sexually transmitted diseases; a women’s clinic; a prenatal clinic; and a WIC clinic to support nutrition in the community. Client visits increased and the clinic needed to expand. In January 1994, it relocated to 2904 S. 24 th Street. In 1995, Mary Lee Fitzsimmons, RN, PhD, became the second executive director and would lead the center through the decade. The staff expanded to fifteen employees. The number of volunteer medical providers increased and partnerships expanded. The health center moved to a new location at 36 th & Q in 1999.
I n 1979, to house the growing needs of the center, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries, now Lutheran Family Services, purchased a building at 2401 S. 20 th Street. It was renovated and the organization provided administrative support as the grassroots volunteer-driven health clinic continued to grow. A three-person staff was hired and community outreach, translation and transportation services were added. But more work needed to be done for the clinic to grow. By the end of the decade, the Board of Directors decided it was time to move and become a freestanding organization with its own executive director.
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