Care Alliance Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that provides primary health care and comprehensive dental services to individuals and families who are homeless, living in public housing, uninsured or underinsured. The mission of Care Alliance is to provide high-quality comprehensive medical and dental care, patient advocacy and related services to people who need them most, regardless of ability to pay.
Care Alliance Health Center was established in 1985 as one of the original Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care for the Homeless projects and in 1993 became an independent nonprofit organization. Care Alliance Health Center is the only provider in the City of Cleveland that focuses on addressing the primary health care and dental needs of individuals and families experiencing homelessness and residing in public housing.
Today, Care Alliance is a well-respected and integral member of the local service delivery system of safety-net providers with over thirty-two years of experience providing high quality, comprehensive health and dental services to individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness, living in public housing, low income and uninsured. Care Alliance fills an essential role within our community, ensuring that many of Cleveland’s most vulnerable residents have access to healthcare, and other basic human rights.
Care Alliance Health Center is the only provider in the City of Cleveland that focuses on addressing the primary health care and dental needs of individuals and families experiencing homelessness and residing in public housing.
Care Alliance has four primary sites; one strategically located downtown on St. Clair Avenue near the two largest homeless shelters in Cleveland, one located in the Central neighborhood at East 55th and Woodland Avenue within the Carl B. Stokes Social Service Mall – a facility frequented by many Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) residents, one located within a CMHA housing complex, “Riverview Towers,” on West 25th Street and one located in Central that is their largest stand-alone clinic. The health center also has a mobile clinic which provides services throughout Cleveland and a school-based program addressing the needs of students in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
As a result of the heightened rates of unemployment, more individuals and families are unable to afford or have lost their health insurance and are in need of the affordable health care that Care Alliance provides.
This increased need has resulted in an increased demand for our services, making it imperative for Care Alliance to continue to grow its capacity to meet this expanding need. In 2018, Care Alliance provided medical, dental and supportive services to nearly 15,000 patients.
