West Side Community Health Services (WSCHS) is a community health care organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that serves the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
It is Minnesota's largest community clinic organization, providing health care at 18 locations to some 35,000 patients.
[1][2] WSCHS was founded in 1969 as People's Health Center, a group of volunteers who worked in a church basement to provide free health care services for Spanish-speaking residents of St. Paul's West Side.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services provides significant financial support to the organization.
[8] In 2004, WSCHS began an affiliation with the Pfizer Sharing the Care program, which gives low-income patients access to prescription medications that they could not otherwise afford to buy.