Osborn Family Health Center Celebrates Designation

Lourdes medical staff and leadership, community residents, and patients and staff of Osborn Family Health Center, recently celebrated Osborn’s designation as a Look-Alike Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).

FQHCs are community-based healthcare providers that receive funds from the Health Resources & Services Administration to provide primary care services in underserved areas. FQHC Look-Alikes operate and provide services consistent with health center program requirements, but do not receive health center funding. Osborn is the newest FQHC in the state of New Jersey.

“Osborn Family Health Center is proud to be designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike. For the past 44 years, Osborn has helped thousands of people in Camden receive affordable and quality access to Pediatric, OB/GYN, Family Practice, and Specialty Services. We look forward to working with Community Health Centers in New Jersey and being a member of the New Jersey Primary Care Association,” said Shawne Cuilla, Executive Director and CEO of Osborn Family Health Center.

Osborn Family Health Center was established in 1974 in a brownstone house on Haddon Avenue in Camden. The center was named after the first Chief of Surgery at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Dr. Edward Osborn, who donated the brownstone.

During the first two years of operation, the Osborn’s volume tripled. In 1976, Osborn moved into a renovated Studebaker show room across the street from Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center. Osborn remained there until 1999. Osborn is now located at the Sister Elizabeth Corry Ambulatory Care Center on the Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center campus in Camden.

Pictured (l – r): Dr. Reginald Blaber, President, Lourdes Health System; Sabrina Cannady, Chief Operating Officer, Osborn Family Health Center; Dr. Emmanuel Ashong, Medical Director, Osborn Family Health Center; and Donald Sico, Government Relations Consultant.