Mission
Our Mission is to provide primary and preventive health care in a courteous, professional, and personalized manner.
Vision
Lincoln Community Health center strives to be a provider of primary and preventive health care that is of high quality, culturally competent, efficient and customer-centered in a state-of-the-art facility in collaboration with other community partners
Values
Courtesy, Respect, Quality, Accessibility, Teamwork, Continuous improvement
Patients Served
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Uninsured
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Covered through Medicaid
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Covered through Medicare
Our History
1901
Lincoln Hospital was a medical facility located in Durham, North Carolina founded to serve the African Americans of Durham County and surrounding areas. The hospital was established at through the advocacy of Dr. Aaron Moore. Dr. Moore felt strongly that the African-American community should have their own hospital where African-American physicians and nurses could practice. The institution also included a school of nursing, established in 1905 and provided internship/residency training to physicians.
1925
When the hospital had outgrown the original structure (which suffered a fire in 1922,) a community-wide effort to fund the construction of a new Lincoln Hospital was undertaken.
1971
Charles DeWitt Watts founded Lincoln Community Health Center (LCHC) in 1971. The health center and hospital operated together in the Fayetteville St. facility until September 25, 1976, when inpatients were transferred to Durham County General Hospital.
1973
Lincoln Hospital eventually merged with Durham County Hospital Corporation under the condition that Lincoln Community Center remains open in Lincoln Hospital’s old facility rent free. With funding from the Office of Economic Opportunity and Operation Breakthrough, Lincoln Community Health Center was able to open in the old Lincoln Hospital building.
1982
The building structure of the Lincoln Health Center was deteriorating and in December of 1982 a new health clinic was built behind the old clinic. The Lincoln Community Health Center is still in operation today providing quality medical services to those in need.
2004
Dr. Watts died at the age of 86
2025
The Lincoln Community Health Center is still in operation today providing quality medical services to those in need.
FTCA
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), in accordance with the Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act (FSHCAA), as amended, sections 224(g)-(n) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, 42 U.S.C. 233 (g)-(n), deems Lincoln Community Health Center, Inc. to be an employee of the Public Health Service, for the purposes of section 224. This act grants medical malpractice protection through the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) to all eligible health care practitioners.
