Encyclopedia Dubuque
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CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER. Federally funded community health center offering medical and dental care for uninsured and underinsured residents. Efforts in Dubuque to establish a federally funded community health center failed for many years because of rejected grant applications.
Sister Helen HUEWE scheduled a meeting soon after she retired in 1997 to reverse the history of the proposal. Working with community leaders and using her experience in health care, Huewe managed to gain the support of Dubuque's existing health care providers. In the summer of 2005, the facility relied on state funds as part of an incubator program to attract federal designation. The Schmid family--of Crescent Electric--created an approximately $1.3 million endowment for the center in 2006, the year the center was opened.
The facility became the first community health care center in Iowa to successfully utilize the incubator program. The desired federal designation and funding arrived in August 2007.