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Mission/History

The DuPage Community Clinic is a free clinic, providing healthcare for low income, medically uninsured residents. Staffed by volunteer doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals and funded by a grassroots network, the DuPage Community Clinic represents a true community effort.

Formed in 1989, by Dr. Charles Ahn and Dorothy McIntyre of the Peoples' Resource Center, the DuPage Community Clinic started as a two day a month health clinic in an old house converted to a community center. However, it was clear that there was significant need for the clinic, and the DuPage Community Clinic received its own 501(c)3 designation in August of 1990 and became a separate organization from the Peoples' Resource Center.

As the levels of poverty in DuPage County grew, so did the need for the services provided by the DuPage Community Clinic. What started out as a one room, two day a month medical clinic has become a full time medical clinic, providing acute care, primary care and specialty medical care, and mental health services and access to low cost prescription medications.

In recent years, the DuPage Community Clinic experienced significant growth due to the economic downturn. Last year the clinic provided over 18,000 patient contacts to 5,000 unduplicated patients, a 60% increase from the previous year. For these 5,000 DuPage County residents, we not only worked to restore their health, but also their hope.