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South Of Market Health Center Important Message from our Executive Director
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Westbrook Plaza Project — Historic Innovation in San Francisco’s Growing South of Market Neighborhood

After more than 15 years of planning, South of Market Health Center will make history when it breaks ground on its new community health center in 2007.

Never before in the history of San Francisco has a community health center been built from the ground up as a new state-of-the-art facility. Once the new health center is open, SMHC will serve twice as many patients as it does today, thereby responding to the urgent need and demand for more primary and family health care services in this growing region of San Francisco.

Also noteworthy has been the leadership and vision of the SMHC Board of Directors in looking at this project as an opportunity to do something that had never been done before. Early in the planning process, the Board of Directors invited Mercy Housing California (MHC), a nationally recognized developer of affordable housing, to join SMHC in this truly public-private partnership.

SMHC has made a commitment to this community and we demonstrate this commitment daily in practical, life changing ways. This project has provided a platform for presenting our vision of how to better serve this community, provide more integrated care with other service providers, and to expand the vision of the Board of Directors to serve similar populations in other areas. Building a new facility provides a unique opportunity to provide a clinic that is more expansive in its service, conveys a stronger value of customer service and is convenient and attractive for the people who depend on it.

 
 

Opening in 2008

Westbrook Plaza will be located on 7th Street between Howard and Folsom streets. When the project is completed it will include:

A 20,000 square foot community health clinic
48 units of affordable housing for low-income families
A small pharmacy
Subsurface parking
 

“This is the first expansion of the Health Center in over 30 years. During this time the target population in South of Market has more than doubled. Expanded primary care access and capacity is essential to keep up with the needs of this community.”

Antoinetta Stadlman, Chairperson,
South of Market Project Area Committee.

 

“This project offers the promise of a fully-integrated service model providing affordable housing with medical care.”

Mitchell Katz, M.D.,
Director of Health for the San Francisco Department of Public Health


 
To find out more about ways to support the Westbrook Plaza project, call Marilyn Griffin, Director of Planning and Development, at (415) 436-0111 ext. 1006.