Established in the mid-1960s, the Delta Health Center in the all-African American town of Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Miss. was the first community health center in a rural U.S. county.
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- "Out in the Rural" - the Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi
Links to articles and videos about the first community health center in a rural U.S. county
- 2008 HBHE retrospective with John Hatch and Jack Geiger (120 min)
During a gathering in 2008, John Hatch and Jack Geiger reflect on the work creating the Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou Mississippi in the 1960s. Includes a welcome by Edwin Fisher (professor and immediately past chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, HBHE) and prefatory remarks by Eugenia (Geni) Eng (HBHE professor) and Lynn Blanchard (Director, Carolina Center for Public Service).
- Delta Health Center
The first Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC) in the United States, DHC is a non-profit organization located in historic Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Founded in 1965, it has helped generations of families to live healthy and stay healthy.
- Delta Health Center, Inc. - Our History
Interview with Jack Geiger on the Delta Health Center's website (source: National Library of Medicine)
- Delta Health Center, Inc. - website
- Delta Health Center Records, 1956-1992
Collection Number: 04613 in The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC.
- Entry in SNAC
SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) is a free, online resource that helps users discover biographical and historical information about persons, families, and organizations that created or are documented in historical resources (primary source documents) and their connections to one another. Users can locate archival collections and related resources held at cultural heritage institutions around the world.
- Robert Korstad interviews founders of the Delta Health Center
Separate and joint interviews with Jack Geiger, John Hatch, and L.C. Dorsey
- The First Rural CHC (Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
Chronicles - The Community Health Center Story - video recording of interviews with H. Jack Geiger and John W. Hatch, in five parts plus a photo gallery.
- With Roots In Civil Rights, Community Health Centers Push For Equity In The Pandemic
Shalina Chatlani, June 3, 2021.
This story comes from NPR's partnership with Kaiser Health News (KHN) and the three stations who make up the Gulf States Newsroom: Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WBHM in Birmingham, and WWNO in New Orleans. See also https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/community-health-centers-pandemic-mississippi/