{"id":369,"date":"2020-12-30T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhealthcenter.org\/uncategorized\/new-health-honors-the-life-of-h-jack-geiger-co-founder-of-americas-first-health-centers\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:42:13","slug":"new-health-honors-the-life-of-h-jack-geiger-co-founder-of-americas-first-health-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhealthcenter.org\/new-health-honors-the-life-of-h-jack-geiger-co-founder-of-americas-first-health-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW Health Honors the life of H. Jack Geiger Co-founder of America\u2019s First Health Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jack-geiger-passed-away-at-the-age-of-95-this-monday-december-28-2020\">H. Jack Geiger passed away at the age of 95 this Monday December 28, 2020<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p> A lifelong civil rights activist and co-founder of the first health centers in the United States, Dr. Geiger played a pivotal role in the history of this nation\u2019s now more than 1,300 Community Health Centers (CHC). A proponent of social medicine, Dr. Geiger believed not only in the treatment of ill patients, but also of the conditions that made them sick in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health centers Dr. Geiger co-founded offered what he called \u201ca road out\u201d of poverty by providing desperately needed health care but also food, sanitation, education, jobs and social services. He was a founding member of two advocacy groups that later went on to be awarded Nobel Peace Prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. H. Jack Geiger paved the way for so much of what this nation\u2019s over 1,300 CHCs stand for. A passionate civil rights activist until the very end, Dr. Geiger will remain an inspiration for NEW Health as we continue to care for our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more about Dr. H. Jack Geiger\u2019s life <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/28\/health\/h-jack-geiger-dead.html\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lifelong civil rights activist and co-founder of the first health centers in the United States, Dr. Geiger played a pivotal role in the history of this nation\u2019s now more than 1,300 Community Health Centers (CHC). 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