Welcome to GLFHC - Greater Lawrence Family Health Center 

The Greater Lawrence Family Health Center is one of more than 900 community health centers providing medical care in isolated and impoverished areas across the country.

Prior to GLFHC's establishment in 1980, the indigent and the uninsured living in Lawrence and neighboring communities had few health care alternatives. Consequently, Lawrence lagged behind the rest of Massachusetts on virtually all health status indicators.

Today, GLFHC provides primary health care to 43,000 patients from Lawrence and the neighboring communities of Haverhill, Andover, North Andover, Methuen, Tewksbury, and Salem, New Hampshire. GLFHC operates four neighborhood clinics in Lawrence, two school-based health centers, and the only federally funded Health Care for the Homeless program in the Merrimack Valley. Ten years ago, GLFHC developed the nation’s first accredited community health center-sponsored Family Practice Residency program, which attracts physicians committed to caring for underserved populations.

The Health Center offers

GLFHC opened The Family Pharmacy at our Haverhill Street facility. In addition, alternative healing methods such as t’ai chi, acupuncture, hypnosis, meditation, yoga, aerobics, and massage are provided through our Integrative Medicine program. Since its creation in 1980, GLFHC has dramatically improved community health, lowered overall health care costs, and provided accessible health care to an underserved population.