After its first fifteen months of service in Skinker DeBaliviere, the Loop-West End People’s Clinic has hired Peter Muckerman, its first Administrator.
Until he began work on October 1st, the tasks of managing the clinic were divided among a volunteer peer group.
On August 18 the Clinic convened a daylong conference on re-organization.
In this conference, the first year’s performance was evaluated and plans for the next year were prepared.
While the Clinic’s initial goal of providing accessable free medical care had indeed been achieved, those attending the conference felt that a full-time coordinator was needed to facilitate continued growth of better medical services. Mr. Mur-kerman has returned to the Clinic after completing a one-year residency in health care administration at a Chicago hospital.
He has attended the Graduate Program in Health Care Administration at Washington University School of Medicine and expects to receive his master’s Degree upon completion of his thesis.
He has been involved in the Clinic as a volunteer since the project began in November of 1971, as a revitalization of an earlier project by Community Collectives.
That earlier project had tried, without success, to organize a clinic at 757 Westgage, in the Loop.
Then, in the Fall of 1971, Community Collectives, the Medical Committee for Human Rights, and Skinker-De Baliviere residents began collaborating on planning the medical service which was to become the Loop-West End People’s Clinic.
Mr. Muckerman lived in Skinker-DeBaliviere for a year before moving to Chicago in September of 1972.
He now lives in the 6100 block of Washington.
Originally published in The Paper, November 1973.
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