4 years ago
I don't know if this review will be of value to an...
I don't know if this review will be of value to anyone today because i have not been seen at Watts healthcare since 1979 when I joined the Air Force. But I just wanted to attest to what it offered back in the day for those who didn't know. Also to say that I was glad to see that the center is still going strong. Good medical care is so important to us all.
When I was a teenager the Watts health foundation (as it was called then) was further up 103rd street about two or three blocks east near David Starr Jordan high school, than it is now until it moved to the corner of 103rd and Compton Avenue, In Los Angeles.
We were lucky enough to see doctors who were just as good as any who worked in private practice. As a teenager I could make my own medical appointments because my mom had younger children and it was far easier if i could walk the two or three blocks from school.
They provided all medical and dental care right there in that one building. If you couldn't walk or drive to the clinic they had a van that would pick up at your curb and take you back home in a van.
Had it not been for the Watts healthcare center we would not have been able to care for one of my brothers who was an epileptic and I will always think fondly of my friends who worked there. My favorite was Dr. Roland Jefferson who is a psychiatrist. who went on to write books and screen plays such as: "The School on 103rd street" in 1976. A major Hollywood producer is currently developing this. I recently bought it since it has gone into another copy write. It is a good read.
Thank you Watts Health Care, belatedly.