This week marks the fortieth anniversary of the first community health centers in the country.
Thirty four years ago, New Hampshire was home to one fledgling center with just one doctor.
Now the twelve centers in the state serve over eighty thousand patients a year, and are considered essential to healthcare for the poor, the uninsured, and the underinsured.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Kerry Grens has a look at how community health centers have evolved over the years.
