We wash the feet of more than 200 homeless individuals at the inaugural Foot Washing and Foot Care event to offer minor podiatric care. Our guests and volunteers embrace the experience enthusiastically, spurring us to schedule two events annually.
We separate from Los Angeles Mission to focus solely on the provision of health care and earn Federally Qualified Health Center Designation. With new federal funding available, were able to expand clinic services to meet the enormous needs in our community.
Joshua House pilots an innovative medical outreach program. Medical providers equipped with suitcases of medications and supplies deliver full medical services to people trying to survive at numerous shelters, waiting at drop-in centers and living on street corners.
The clinic takes on the name of Los Angeles Christian Health Centers. With federal funding awarded to our medical outreach program, three full-time provider teams begin to serve nine sites in Skid Row, Boyle Heights, and Watts.
LACHC opens Pico Aliso Clinic on 4th Street in Boyle Heights, providing pediatric and adult services to the Pico Gardens and Aliso Courts public housing projects, as well as the Dolores Mission Guadalupe Homeless Project and the surrounding community.
LACHC launches electronic health records at all clinic sites. Our behavioral health program expands as Joshua House Clinic and Pico Aliso become training sites for graduate students in psychology as well as marriage and family therapy.
LACHC expands behavioral health integration again. We collaborate with Exodus Recovery to start up two integrated medical-mental health teams operating at three sites as well as on the streets. An alliance with mental health organization Telecare Inc. leads to the opening of two LACHC sites serving individuals with severe mental illness, including state parolees.
With increasing demand for care at Joshua House Clinic and the facility bursting at the seams LACHC moves its administrative offices off site. This allows for the creation of six new medical exam rooms, three new mental health and social work rooms, one additional dental operatory and an insurance enrollment office.
