Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care
http://www.maryscenter.org/
2333 Ontario Road, NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-483-8196

Founded in 1988

President & CEO: Maria S. Gomez, RN, MPH
Chair, Board of Directors: Guadalupe Pacheco, MSW
Staff: 134
2005 Budget: $9.0 million


Mission and History
The mission of Mary's Center is to build better futures through health care, education, and social services that embrace our culturally diverse community.

Mary’s Center was formed in 1988 with funding from the DC Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs and the DC Department of Health to address the need for maternal and pediatric services among Spanish-speaking residents in Ward 1 of the District of Columbia. Mary’s Center has grown from an initial budget of $250,000 to an annual budget of nearly $8 million and serves a multicultural population residing in all Wards of the District of Columbia, as well as Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland.

Services
Mary's Center offers prenatal and postnatal health care, social service case management, home visitation, health care for male and female teens, early childhood and family education, and HIV testing and prevention. In November 2003 the clinic opened to men of all ages. Mary’s Center also operates a family literacy program, a mobile health van, an elementary school health clinic, and manages the District of Columbia’s Healthy Start contract in Wards 1, 2, 4, and 5. The Center operates at two sites in the Adams Morgan area, one clinic in Ward 4, and offers its family literacy program at Bancroft Elementary School in Mt. Pleasant and comprehensive school-based health services at Brightwood Elementary School. In 2002, Mary’s Center served over 5,000 unduplicated medical patients including 3,082 adults and teens and 2,173 children from prenatal to age 12, and more than 10,000 individuals for non-medical patient programs and services.