About the Organization
Erie Family Health Center delivers high-quality, culturally-sensitive, bilingual health care to more than 53,000 medical patients and 9,500 dental patients. Our community-based health care centers are portals to high-quality care and a higher quality of life regardless of a patients ability to pay. Since 1957, when the Erie Family Health Center was first established as a volunteer clinic by doctors from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, it has been our mission to consider health care a right, not a privilege. Today, Erie serves patients from 13 sites, including seven large primary care facilities (four with integrated, on-site dental care), five school-based health centers and the only freestanding comprehensive teen health provider in Chicagoland.
At Erie Family Health Center, we believe health care is a right, not a privilege. Our mission is to provide accessible, affordable and high quality health care for those in need.
About the Community
Erie currently has 13 sites in the Great Chicago Land Area, which are located in areas of great need.
Communities that we serve and are located in:
Albany Park
Avondale
Belmont Cragin
Evanston
Hermosa
Humboldt Park
Irving Park
Lincoln Square
Logan Square
North Center
North Lawndale
Skokie
Uptown
Waukegan
West Town
The people that we serve:
79% of Eries patients are Hispanic
54% are best served in Spanish
68% are female
49% are under the age of 19
28% are school-aged children
31% are uninsured
83% come from households with incomes that fall below the Federal Poverty Line