Jackson Expose' Magazine for Issue.com -June 2014.pdf Jul. 2014 | Page 10

DR. JASMIN CHAPMAN
CEO

Of Jackson Hinds
Comprehensive Health Center

The Largest
Community Health
Center in the
State of Mississippi

Central Mississippi Civic Improvement Association, Inc. (CMCIA), d/b/a Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center, was incorporated in October 1970 as a nonprofit 501c(3) organization to engage in planning and development of comprehensive health services for residents of
poor, largely non- white, communities in Jackson, Mississippi and other areas in Hinds County.

Jackson Hinds Comprehensive Health Center
(JHCHC) is the largest
community health center
in Mississippi. Since its inception, JHCHC has grown
from a “one-bus-andSunday school-classroom”
operation to become a 18
site, multi-disciplinary provider serving over 48,000
patients in Hinds, Warren, and Copiah counties.
Jackson-Hinds is the only
federally qualified health
center (FQHC) in the state

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operating a clinic for the
homeless and the only
FQHC operating a HUD
housing complex for
low-income elderly and
disabled residents.
A fifteen member
Board of Directors governs
JHCHC. Its members represent civic and religious
organizations, homeless
persons, homemakers and
residents of medically
underserved communities
that utilize center services
and programs.

Throughout its forty-three
year history, the Board
of Directors, management and staff of JHCHC
have delivered services
consistent with its mission
statement: To provide low
cost, quality, family-based
health care and social services to people who may
not otherwise have access
to them.
JHCHC, an over $16 million per year operation,
has an annual economic
impact of approximately