March 30, 2015 was one of those spring days that Bostonians are used to, with cold temperatures and a little sun and a brisk wind coming off Dorchester Bay. As President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. John McCain and others, myself included, gathered for the dedication of the new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, I couldn’t help but think how fitting it was that we were a short walk down Mt. Vernon Street from the Geiger Gibson Point Health Center.

Geiger Gibson, formerly known as Columbia Point Health Center, was the first community health center in the country. In 1966, first-term United States Sen. Ted Kennedy visited the center, and was so inspired by the care being provided to low-income neighborhood residents that he went back to Washington and

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