OUR MISSION

We expand and enhance primary and preventive healthcare in underserved communities.

We strive to ensure that everyone—regardless of age, race, ability, or financial situation—has access to timely, responsive, personal, patient-focused and effective care.

OUR STRATEGY

Our strategy is informed by our thorough and experienced perspective on the health sector, our willingness to put innovative ideas into practice, our responsibility to our partners and funders and our belief in the power of healthcare to transform lives. We:

• Deliver programs that enable healthcare organizations to develop state-of-the-art facilities and adopt the best primary and preventive care practices
• Promote public policies that pave the way to high-quality services that are efficiently delivered
• Work in partnership with government, business, finance, philanthropy, healthcare providers and a wide variety of other organizations committed to the healthcare needs of underserved communities

OUR HISTORY

PCDC began in 1993 when the New York City government and private and philanthropic sectors came together to address the lack of primary and preventive healthcare in economically distressed communities. This collaborative approach has guided PCDC's work over the past decade.

Through the Capital Access program, PCDC has arranged over $178 million in capital financing for the construction, expansion and renovation of 60 primary care centers throughout New York City. These centers provide care for 400,000 patients every year, and they have had a dramatic impact on their neighborhoods. They have created hundreds of jobs while transforming 500,000 square feet of vacant, abandoned or dilapidated space into busy, attractive community facilities.

As PCDC worked with healthcare centers to construct and expand their facilities, we saw an opportunity to build on these partnerships by helping centers become efficient, patient-centered enterprises. PCDC's Operations Success and Emerging Initiatives units were born in response to this need.