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Services to assist individuals of ALL AGES and families to move up the economic ladder. MARY's center does this in partnership with briya charter school, a DUAL generation learning center, and several dozen other health and human service partners. Founded in 1988, MARY's center is a community health center that provides services to over 60,000 individuals from ALL parts of the DC metro region; these individuals represent nearly 50 countries. Since our doors opened, MARY's center has grown from a small basement clinic that served 200 women a year to a robust award-winning community health center. MARY's center provides comprehensive services at seven locations in d.c. And maryland, including two senior wellness centers. MARY's center has been dismantling inequities for the past 35 years by serving communities who are disproportionately excluded from traditional healthcare systems. Our commitment to healthcare disparity work is steadfast. MARY's center ensures that latino, black and immigrant communities have access to the highest quality of care. Through this culturally competent care, we help our participants achieve and maintain quality health outcomes. The quality of our care has been nationally recognized by dcpca, HRSA, the robert WOOD johnson foundation, and the kresge foundation, among others. Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, disparities in testing and vaccinations have highlighted the inequities MARY's center has been addressing for decades. MARY's center is committed to leveraging the trust we have engendered in the community to build our participants' trust in the healthcare system. We meet participants where they are and provide the high-quality care they have systemically been excluded from. Guided by our social change model, we provide comprehensive healthcare, workforce development, education, and social services to under-resourced individuals in the DC metropolitan region. Our participants are adults and children, many of whom have been in this region for generations, as well as individuals from almost 50 countries seeking basic freedom and an opportunity to contribute to this great nation. Many of our participants are teetering on the brink of poverty YET with our model of care, we provide pathways to opportunities for improved lives. For many families, we are their safety NET and their partner in achieving a brighter future. During the LAST 10 years, MARY's center's accomplishments have included the following: - serving as a covid-19 treatment and prevention center for 30,000+ in DC and MD. - tripling our impact in montgomery county through the establishment of a new site in silver spring - adding dental to our service offerings - establishing telehealth services in 2017 and then significantly expanding telehealth offerings, providing increased access to our services - the evaluation of our social change model (see below for detail) - opening a new site in FT. Totten, washington d.c. In response to the growing demand for our services - between 2013 and 2022 we doubled the number of patients we serve from 32,146 to greater than 65,000 - in 2019 and 2018 we received HRSA's health center quality leader award for achieving excellence in our patient outcomes - in 2019 we received the robert WOOD johnson foundation's award for health equity - receiving the 2019 health center quality award from the dcpca - MARY's center is the proud recipient of a TOP score of 100 on the human rights campaign's foundation's healthcare equality index - since 2016, MARY's center has been recognized as a washington post TOP workplace
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