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February 7, 2012

'One-stop' health center opens in Boston

  • The $35 million clinic is viewed as a model for health care, offering 19,000 people everything from cancer screening to violence prevention programs.
    • By BOB SALSBERG
    Associated Press

    BOSTON — Bob Thompson learned he had prostate cancer after routine screening at the Whittier Street Health Center, a community-based facility that has long served serving thousands of residents of the inner-city Roxbury neighborhood.

    The screening probably saved his life, said Thompson, 60, a long-time Roxbury resident who had surgery for the cancer last May.


     
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