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1988 - Stewart Rogers, MD, and Betty Rogers, RN, begin providing medical care at Greensboro Urban Ministry's Pathways shelter.
1989 - Leadership Greensboro helps solicit start-up gifts to support the operation of a storefront clinic at 414 Battleground Avenue. The first full-time employee is hired to coordinate the all-volunteer staff.
1990 - The Greensboro Urban Ministry Clinic opens in May at 414 Battleground Avenue. 1,700 patients are seen in the first year.
1991 - The Junior League of Greensboro makes a leadership gift of $100,000 to establish the Greensboro Pharmacy through Greensboro Urban Ministry. The pharmacy is located just blocks from the storefront clinic. The focus is on repackaging donated sample medications. The clinic has more than 3,000 patient visits.
1992 - The Duke Endowment provides funding through The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital to employ a full-time social worker at the Battleground clinic.
1993 - HealthServe Ministry Inc. is incorporated as a 501(c)3 organization. A new permanent facility is built at the corner of Lee and Eugene Streets through Greensboro Urban Ministry's capital campaign. The new facility opens with one staff physician and one nurse practitioner.
1994 - HealthServe Ministry celebrates its one-year anniversary.
1995 - The first coordinator of volunteers is hired to coordinate all volunteering physicians, nurses, dentists and non-clinical volunteers.
1998 - HealthServe opens its second location at 1439 E. Cone Boulevard. The first staff dentist is hired to practice at the Eugene Street location.
1999 - Between the two locations there are now 40 employees and more than 450 volunteers providing care to the uninsured and underinsured adults and families of Greater Greensboro.
2002 - HealthServe Medical Center becomes a department of Moses Cone Health System and a provider in the continuum of care for the newly formed Guilford Adult Health. HealthServe Ministry is dissolved.
2003 - HealthServe celebrates its 10th year of caring for the Greater Greensboro community. The Greensboro Pharmacy implements an Indigent Care Program (ICP) for acquiring free medicines from pharmaceutical companies.
2004 - HealthServe becomes HealthServe Community Health Clinic. HealthServe receives $227,000 in community support in honor of the retirement of Moses Cone Health System CEO Dennis Barry. With a budget of $3.4 million in 2004, HealthServe records 22,000 patient visits and fills 59,000 prescriptions.
2005 - HealthServe implements Advanced Access same-day appointment scheduling and receives national recognition for this achievement. A fourth physician joins HealthServe. The clinics receive a combined 97 percent patient satisfaction score.
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