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On March 1st, 2015 Lyon-Martin merged with HealthRIGHT 360—a family of clinical and behavioral health programs that serve low-income communities throughout California. The partnership enabled both organizations to maintain and expand culturally competent primary care and behavioral health services to women, queer and transgender people. While preserving each organization’s unique specializations and…

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On June 28, 1999, just four months after the Women’s Needs Center closed, the Women’s Community Clinic opened its doors to the community with the mission to improve the health and well-being of all women, by providing free health care for women by women in a safe, respectful environment.  WCC…

For thirty years, the Women’s Needs Center (WNC) provided free health care to uninsured and underinsured women in San Francisco.  In February of 1999, the Women’s Needs Center was forced to shut its doors because of financial cutbacks at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc. At the time that it closed,…

The volunteers were committed to establishing a lesbian health service to provide quality, affordable, nonjudgmental comprehensive health care and health education for lesbians. They agreed to open a clinic, and name it after Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, lesbian activists in the city of San Francisco whose lives and work…

In 1977, Patty Robertson was working as a resident physician in the obstetrics and gynecology program at the University of California, San Francisco. One night when working on her gynecology rotation at SFGH, she was called to the Emergency Room to see a lesbian patient who had pelvic pain. One…