About Sixteenth Street Community Health Center

Sixteenth Street Community Health Center has provided quality health care, health education and social services on Milwaukee’s multi-cultural south side since 1969. The Center is recognized as a leader in the community, in terms of the excellent care provided as well as advocacy for public health issues.

In 2011 Sixteenth Street provided health care services to more than 30,000 people.  29,771 of these people received medical care at 117,117 individual appointments.  3,109 people received behavioral health services with 16,231 individual appointments.

Case managers, outreach and education specialists and eligibility assistance workers helped 4,284 people at 17,833 individual appointments deal with complicated medication plans, learn how to manage their chronic illness or enroll in programs or services for additional assistance.

Sixty-three percent of Sixteenth Street patients reported incomes below the federal poverty level and 30% were without health insurance.  80% of patients are Hispanic or Latino, 15% are White, 2% are African American, 2% are Asian and 1% unreported or other.  63% of patients were best served in a language other than English.

1,601 women received pre-natal care at Sixteenth Street and 919 deliveries were performed by Sixteenth Street providers.  69% of these deliveries were done by the Certified Nurse Midwives in Sixteenth Street’s women’s health department.  94% of these babies were at or above normal birth weight.