Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Encyclopedia
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center is a primary care
center located at 356 West 18th Street in New York
, NY
. The center is dedicated to providing medical health care to the city's LGBT
population without regard to ability to pay.
Callen-Lorde is the only primary care center in New York City created specifically to serve the LGBT community. The facility offers a variety of services, including dental care
, HIV
/STD
testing and treatment, mental health services, transsexual hormone therapy, and other services. Callen-Lorde is also home to the Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) program, which serves youth between the ages of 13 and 22 in an on-premises clinic and a fully equipped medical van.
In 2007, it was among over 530 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $30 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
.
Primary care
Primary care is the term for the health services by providers who act as the principal point of consultation for patients within a health care system...
center located at 356 West 18th Street in New York
New York City
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, NY
New York
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. The center is dedicated to providing medical health care to the city's LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
population without regard to ability to pay.
Callen-Lorde is the only primary care center in New York City created specifically to serve the LGBT community. The facility offers a variety of services, including dental care
Dentistry
Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...
, HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
/STD
Sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted disease , also known as a sexually transmitted infection or venereal disease , is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex...
testing and treatment, mental health services, transsexual hormone therapy, and other services. Callen-Lorde is also home to the Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) program, which serves youth between the ages of 13 and 22 in an on-premises clinic and a fully equipped medical van.
In 2007, it was among over 530 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $30 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...
.
See also
- Michael CallenMichael CallenMichael Callen was a singer, songwriter, composer, author, and AIDS activist. He was a significant architect of the response to the AIDS crisis in the United States....
and Audre LordeAudre LordeAudre Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.-Life:...
, for whom the organization is named.