| 1970 |
People's Free Clinic is established by a group of volunteer doctors and nurses, in the basement of the Congregational Church off the "Drag". |
| 1972 |
First Federal grant for women's health and family planning services received. |
| 1974 |
City awards grant for general medicine services; County awards funding for prenatal care services. Clinic's name is changed to People's Community Clinic. |
| 1982 |
Clinic hours: 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., four evenings per week. Budget: $304,000. Clinic staff: 18 full-time; 2 part-time; 80 volunteers. |
| 1985 |
PCC initiates one of Texas' first HIV counseling and testing programs. PCC hires first full-time physician medical director. Service hours are expanded from 20 to 40 hours per week. Computers are installed for electronic data collection, appointments, and billing. |
| 1986 |
PCC broadens general medicine services; expands pediatric services; provides leadership in establishing the first HIV Commission. |
| 1989 |
14,000 visits provided annually. |
| 1990 |
PCC initiates $1.5 million capital campaign to purchase and expand the facility at 2909 North IH-35. St. David's Health Care System provides funding for three weekly evening clinics to serve the working poor. |
| 1992 |
St. David's increases support to fund five evening clinics per week. Care provided 12 hours per day, Monday - Friday. |
| 1993 |
Walk-in immunization services are implemented five days per week. PCC named 60th Anniversary project of the Junior League. Center for Adolescent Health is established. |
| 1994 |
Weekly off-site clinic to provide homeless teens with medical and prevention services established in collaboration with Youth Options. |
| 1996 |
Renovation and expansion completed. The Center for Adolescent
Health establishes the Downtown Center for Health, in collaboration
with the American Institute for Learning. St. David's Community
Health names PCC as its first major recipient of funds. |
| 1997 |
Teen prenatal clinic is established. Pediatric medical director is hired. |
| 1998 |
St. David's Community Health funds Tandem project. Budget for
Clinic is $2.6 million. |
| 1999 |
Volunteer Specialty Referral Program initiated to provide PCC patients with consultative evaluation and treatment services. Budget for Clinic is $3.1 million. |
| 2002 |
PCC, at the invitation of leading Georgetown citizens, initiates services at the Georgetown Community Clinic. People's Community Clinic's budget is $4.1 million with 77 full and part-time staff. Three-year, $10 million Capacity Campaign launched. Nowlin Family's $1 million lead gift announced; 100% of Board contributes $705,000. |
| 2003 |
Clinic-wide Re-Envisioning and Quality Improvement programs initiated. Regina Rogoff, JD, becomes Executive Director. $4.5 million budget. |
| 2004 |
Six-month renovation of Clinic completed on schedule and under budget.
Improvements include two new exam rooms, enhancements to nurse stations
and alcoves for medical teams, additional privacy for in-take areas,
and greater space for telephone banks, medical records and pharmacy.
The Clinic Reunion and Open House held November 13 celebrated the renovations
and the 34-year history of the Clinic. The budget reached $4.9 million. |
| 2005 |
2005 culminated in the receipt of the the Samaritan Center's Ethics
in Business Award in the non-profit category. The highly successful
Capacity Campaign came to a close after raising more than $5.5 million.
Other milestones include the launching of the East Austin Community
Health Promoters, the receipt of our first major federal grant adn the
adoption of a disease registry to monitor our chronically ill patients.
On the operations side, the Clinic increased evening pediatric hours
and decreased the number of "no-show" visits. The budget reached
$5.2 million. |
