In the mid-1960s, violent social unrest lead our community to address the lack of access to inner-city health care.  The work initiated in the 1960s led to a network of Federally Qualified Health Centers, and in 1986 RPCN was incorporated.

The strength behind the organization is the trust and respect among our affiliated centers, and the belief that all people should be able to receive quality health care regardless of racial, ethnic, socio-economic, or insurance status.

RPCN has worked quietly in the background, providing the grants, technical assistance, and enhanced Medicaid billing rates needed to keep our affiliated centers in business.  We have emerged as the region's primary champion of efforts to increase access to care for the low-income uninsured and underinsured.

We offer an unique and very effective model of expanding health care coverage in the Rochester region.  Today, our sixteen medical, dental, and school-based health centers provide comprehensive primary and oral health care to over 90,000 individuals in the community.  The secret's out.