Started as a free clinic simultaneously with Berkeley Free Clinic on the West Coast, People’s Free Medical Clinic was the first free-standing medical center on the East Coast. Together, these centers were the first in the country. Staffed by an all volunteer group of professional and lay people, People’s Free opened to provide adult medicine, pediatrics, gynecology and mental health counseling. People’s has evolved over the past three decades to become a full service medical, dental and behavioral health center accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.

Still operating its largest clinical practice within the original building on Greenmount Avenue, People’s has added four additional delivery sites – a behavioral health program on the east side of Greenmount Avenue, full service practices at 5225 York Road and 5004 Ritchie Highway, and the newest location on the grounds of the Rehoboth Church of God on Poplar Grove Street, opening Winter 2002.