Founded in 1993, CommunityHealth is dedicated to serving the uninsured and underserved in Chicago and surrounding communities. We provide over 17,000 medical and dental visits for 4,500+ patients every year. This level of care is made possible thanks to the time and talent of more than 1,000 volunteers, including 350+ providers (physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, dentists, pharmacists, counselors, etc.).
CommunityHealth’s main facility, the Lederman Family Health Center, is located in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. In 2010, we opened a satellite in Chicago’s south side Englewood neighborhood — a community with great need and limited resources. As the largest volunteer-based free medical facility in the United States, we offer demonstrated success and an innovative model for providing compassionate and comprehensive medical and dental care to the uninsured.
If you are interested in supporting CommunityHealth, you can be sure that your donation is truly making a difference. That’s because every dollar we spend translates to more than $8.00 in care delivered. As a totally free, volunteer-based organization, we receive no reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid, or third-party payers. We rely on support from individuals, foundations, corporations, and institutions for more than 95% of our revenue. CommunityHealth simply could not exist without your commitment.
The Center for Care Innovations helps the people who power the safety net go further, faster.
We've worked alongside the organizations that serve historically underinvested communities across California and beyond: community health centers, public hospitals, tribal providers, community-based organizations, and managed care plans. These are the people who serve everyone regardless of ability to pay, often with more demand than resources. They already know what their communities need. Our job is to help them build, adapt, and go further, not to hand them a playbook.
We work through three lines:
Capacity Building Initiatives are structured, cohort-based programs that build real capability over months, sometimes years. Accelerators, learning networks, and collaboratives where safety-net teams strengthen the skills and systems to change how care is delivered, and track improvement they can carry forward on their own.
Advising and Consulting brings specialized expertise, coaching, and thought partnership when the work calls for it. Our coaches and subject matter experts embed inside large-scale initiatives, build capability across networks, and support single organizations navigating something genuinely hard, from population health management to AI strategy to major policy shifts like CalAIM.
Ecosystem Development is our open door. Summits, virtual learning series, and tailored convenings where the field comes together to learn from each other, co-design solutions, and think out loud about what's hardest right now. What gets built in those rooms doesn't stay in those rooms.
These three aren't a ladder. Most partners move between them over time, and each meets you at a different moment.
25+ years in, our focus is the same: safety-net leaders drive the change, and CCI is the steady partner who helps them get there.