After months of keeping such a monumental project under wraps, on Thursday, May 27, Jubilee broke ground on the Jubilee Clinic. This new health venture, in partnership with Parkland and Jewish Family Service, will provide primary healthcare and wrap-around health and wellness resources on the same campus our community has come to know and trust for education, housing, childcare, and more.
Jubilee Clinic Ground Braking- Watch Now!
At the ground breaking, President and CEO of Parkland, Dr. Cerise, shared his enthusiasm for the project, noting that the partnership would be the first of its kind for Parkland.
Jubilee board chair Tiffany Davis spoke to Jubilee’s historic role in the community and the trust the organization has built with its neighbors, while President and CEO Marissa Castro Mikoy addressed the health inequities the Jubilee Park neighborhood faces, and her vision for the future of the Jubilee Clinic:
“You asked for access to the most basic resources in the face of overwhelming odds, and we heard you, and we’re here for you. All of us. Jubilee, Parkland, JFS, our contractors, our donors, our staff, our friends; we’re here, side-by-side with you. This is your clinic. The ability to lead a healthy, happy, and full life is a right, and it is our vision that the Jubilee Clinic brings the health resources that you need not just to survive, but to thrive. From our youngest child to our oldest neighbor, the Jubilee Clinic will serve as a medical home for all ages.”
Public officials Adam Medrano and Judge Clay Jenkins spoke to the impact Jubilee has had in the Southeast Dallas community and the importance of healthcare access in building a more equitable Dallas. “Today we’re not only breaking ground,” Jenkins said, “we’re breaking barriers.”
In imagining the generational impact the Jubilee Clinic will have in extending and improving the lives of Southeast Dallas families, Judge Clay Jenkins shared how healthcare access had affected his own family; “When I was seven years old, I watched my father suffer a fatal heart attack in front of me in a park in Oak Cliff. A week later, his brother had access to healthcare and went to the doctor and found out he had the same congenital heart defect. That man lived an additional forty-two years, long enough to meet his great-great-grandchildren. That is the power of healthcare for people that don’t have it.”
In attendance were foundational donors, project contractors, developers and architects, stakeholders, and public officials with a vested interest in the Jubilee Clinic including councilmember Adam Bazaldua, President & CEO of Parkland Foundation Michael Horne, Jewish Family Service CEO Cathy Barker, EVP of Design and Construction of KDC Mike Rosamond, President & CEO of Rogers-O’Brien Justin McAfee, Founder of the Addy Foundation Bill Addy, Chairman of the Myers Foundation Mike Myers, Jubilee Park DPD Substation Sergeant Bridget Wilson-Jones, DPD Lieutenant Allan Majusta, DPD Deputy Chief Israel Herrera, and DPD Lieutenant Paul Thai.
The Jubilee Clinic will seek not only to close the gap in healthcare access by providing pediatric to geriatric primary care through Parkland, but will aim to promote good health for life by providing mental health counseling through Jewish Family Service, and a broad range of wellness programming like cooking classes, health seminars, athletics programs, and nutrition support through Jubilee. In addressing the full range of social health determinants, the Jubilee Clinic will help overcome health injustices in Southeast Dallas, improving the lives of our most vulnerable by ensuring all of our Dallas neighbors have access to the resources they need and deserve.
To watch the full groundbreaking, click here. To learn more about the Jubilee Clinic and to contribute, click here. Interested in speaking with someone about the project? Email Jubilee’s Chief Advancement Officer Haley Coates-Huseman at hcoates@jubileecenter.org.