West Roxbury Resident Leading State-of-the-Art Whittier Street Health Center

West Roxbury's Frederica Williams, president and CEO of Whittier Street Health Center, celebrated the grand opening of the Whittier Street Health Center recently in Roxbury.

The $37 million, 80,000 square foot building was funded in part through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding (ARRA). The Whittier Street Health Center (WSHC) will now be able to provide as many as 220,000 annual patient visits, which is more than triple the capacity of the old center, according to a press release.

WSHC has a patient base that is "ethnically and racially diverse" and serves as a one-stop center for healthcare offering everything from cancer screening to prenatal care to domestic violence support. For information, visit: www.wshc.org.