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Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center, Inc. Legacy and Timeline
2008 The Health Center launches a $21 million capital campaign to build a new 60,000 square foot facility.
2007 The Health Center receives an $11.5 million state of Missouri appropriation to support capital expenses.
2006 Rodgers-Lafayette Dental and Health Center moves into the 4 Life Center, a new facility in Lexington, MO.
2005 Ms. Hilda Fuentes, MPA joins the Health Center as the Chief Executive Officer in September.
2004 Rodgers-Independence Dental Center opens in February, providing comprehensive dental care for students of the Independence School District.
2003 The Health Center expands school-based clinic at McCoy Elementary to include comprehensive dental care.
2001 The Health Center expands to serve rural communities and the Farmworkers’ Project with the opening of a primary medical and comprehensive dental facility in Lexington, MO.
1999 The entire Health Center family and people in Kansas City communities suffer a great loss in the passing of its founder, Samuel U. Rodgers, M.D., M.P.H. on December 19.
1996 Dr. Rodgers becomes executive director emeritus of the Health Center. Medical Director Rita Rodgers-Stanley, M.D. becomes interim executive director.
1995 The Health Center begins providing counseling for compulsive gamblers through a contract with the Missouri Department of Health.
1993 The Health Center opens an Aduli Day Care Center at the Palestine Senior Citizen Activity Center. The lB. Watkins Initiative Program begins to provide substance abuse prevention and counseling service for residents of public housing.
1992 The Comprehensive Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation (C-STAR) program begins to provide a continuum for up to three years of non-residential care. Services are provided seven days per week with a 24-hour hotline.
1991 Awomen's support group meets at the Health Center for the first time to help victims of abuse.
1990 Primary healthcare is provided to families of drug users to help combat the spread of HlVlAIDS. An expanded substance abuse treatment program is located at 31st and Montgall and is named Rodgers-South.
1989 The Health Center and the American Cancer Society co-sponsor the dedication of the Health Center's new mammography unit for prevention and early detection of breast cancer.
1988 Wayne Miner Health Center (WMHC) is renamed Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center in honor of its founder and Executive Director, Dr. Samuel U. Rodgers. The Health Center establishes HlV counseling and testing services. A new perinatal program opens to improve access to care for pregnant women.
1985 More than 450 people attend WMHC's first citywide Cancerama Health Fair. The fair featured free cancer and cardiovascular screening tests.
1984 A school-based clinic opens at Northeast High School. This program encourages regular preventive healthcare and provides education to reduce excessive and unnecessary emergency room visits.
1980 WMHC is the first center in Missouri to become accredited by the Joint Commission of Hospitals, (now, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations/JCAHO) Home Health Services begin providing services to homebound patients.
1977 More than 98,000 patient visits are recorded this year with a total patient population of 32,000 people.
1975 WMHC launches "Reachin' Out," an adolescent health program that provides primary care, teenage pregnancy prevention and counseling on substance abuse, sexuality issues and other teen concerns.
1973 For the first time, WMHC receives funding to provide hospitalization for its patients at private hospitals. WMHC records 103,000 patient encounters, and a group of physicians from China visit to learn about community health outreach services.
1972 Podiatry and physical therapy services are added to WMHC. More than 18,000 people are registered as patients.
1971 WMHC moves to 825 Euclid a new 47,000 square foot facility designed specifically for healthcare services. It is directly across the street from the former Wayne Miner Housing Project.
1970 WMHC is selected to become a healthcare project for underserved populations through the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
1968 Dr. Rodgers opens the fourth community health center in the nation, the first in the state of Missouri, in the 911 Michigan building of the Wayne Miner Housing Project, which was named after a black soldier who died defending his country in World War I.