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| A HISTORY OF SERVICE TO ITS COMMUNITY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Union has a larger obligation to its members than determining what the
day wage rate is. There is a whole sphere of things that we can be working
on to improve the quality of life in this Appalachian area.”
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| Joseph A. Yablonski |
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| In the early 1950s a small group of labor leaders decided that it was up to them to make a difference in health care for their neighbors. These leaders, among them the late Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski, wanted to provide a place where miners, who work in the most dangerous industry in America, could receive primary care. At the same time, they wanted to make medical care available to people in the rural communities of southwestern Pennsylvania. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Those early leaders persuaded two general practice doctors and several specialists to come to Centerville, a small community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and begin practicing medicine. The year was 1955, and the facility they used was an old farm house that had been partially renovated. A nearby apple barn also was renovated and incorporated into the physical plant. Dr. Robert Schwartz, the first medical director at Centerville Clinics, saw the first patient on April 27, 1955, thus beginning a tradition of service to the community. A series of expansions and additions, both in size and services, followed over the next seventeen years and by 1972 th present facility at Centerville, now known as the Joseph A. Yablonski Memorial Clinic, had emerged as a 21,000 square foot facility. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All services at Centerville Clinics are provided without discrimination based on financial ability, race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, parenthood, ethnic background, national origin, physical or mental handicap or disability. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Changes at the Yablonski Memorial Clinic were only one part of the growth of Centerville Clinics. Once the facility at Centerville was opened it became apparent that one location was not enough. The leaders of the Clinic wanted to reach out to other communities. In 1956 Centerville Clinics opened a community-care office in California, PA, then launched Carmichaels Clinic in 1960 as the third facility. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Over a nine-year period, beginning in 1977, Centerville Clinics expanded three more times, opening offices in Waynesburg (1977), Bentleyville (1982), and Republic (1986). In 1994, Centerville Clinics expanded into Faichance and most recently opened facilities in Uniontown and Washington. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Today, the Centerville Clinics network includes Bentleyville Family Practice Center, California Family Practice, Carmichaels Clinic, Fairchance Office, Republic Doctor’s Office, Uniontown Family Doctors, Washington Family Doctors, Waynesburg Office, and the Yablonski Clinic. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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