Fighting Poverty With Health Care

be her third trip to that home today. This morning she visited a boy who was treated last night for a severe asthmatic attack in the emergency room, a boy none of us had met before. Ann found five children in the home. Their mother is in jail on a murder charge. There's no father in the home, but a godfather seems to be holding the kids together.... We were walking in the Columbia Point housing development, site of the first neighborhood health center funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity. Staffed by physicians, nurses, and social workers from the Boston area, the Columbia Point Health Center was opened for business in December 1965. That busi-