Buffalo’s East Side isn’t just a food desert – it’s a health care desert, too.

There aren’t enough doctors and dentists to serve the population of 90,000. Pharmacies and clinics are closing. Cancer and chronic health conditions occur at high concentrations. The Covid-19 pandemic hit hard. And the distance to travel for health care – often for people with no cars – can be measured in miles of walking.

That is what Evergreen Health and its affiliate, Community Access Services, want to address, through their new comprehensive health care facility that they are constructing at the intersection of Kensington and Bailey avenues.

Now under construction, with the final horizontal beam just added, the 36,000-square-foot facility will bring a range of medical and community services to the neighbo

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