Callen-Lorde.org is a Medical facility for the lesbian, gay, bisexual
Title
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Description
Our Mission
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center provides quality health care and related services primarily to New York's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities regardless of ability to pay. To further this mission, Callen-Lorde promotes health education and wellness and advocates for gay, lesbian, and transgender health issues.
Our History
Callen-Lorde's grassroots heritage dates back over 34 years to 1971, to the St. Mark's Community Clinic and the Gay Men's Health Project, two volunteer-based clinics that provided screening and treatment for sexually-transmitted diseases. These clinics merged in 1983 to form Community Health Project (CHP), a mostly volunteer-staffed, episodic care program that housed the country's first community-based HIV clinic. CHP became Callen-Lorde Community Health Center on March 2, 1998, and remains the New York metropolitan area's only health center targeting the needs of the LGBT communities and those living with HIV/AIDS. Its services are vital to LGBT persons, who often face discrimination in the mainstream medical community, and as a result, do not receive adequate or timely medical care.
Callen-Lorde's modern, state-of-the-art health center is located at at 356 West 18th Street in Manhattan. It is a 27,000-square foot, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant, fully licensed, New York State Department of Health Article 28 Diagnostic and Treatment Center. We are the first LGBT agency in the nation to be designated a Federally Qualified Health Center under Section 330(e) of the Public Health Service Act.
Contact
- Callen-Lorde Community Heal
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- New York NY
- United States 10011
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- +1.21227172
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