Readers respond to ‘Dental Robin Hood’

The Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center is San Francisco Landmark 279. by Daphne Young First, let me say THANK YOU for all the love that SF Bay View readers shared with us in response to the December story, “Dental Robin Hood.” We truly appreciate the community outpoor with great comments and memories that were shared by those who wrote to us. But, we also want to clarify that the story was not meant to mention every Black doctor or dentist who ever worked in the Bayview community. Our purpose was to show the disparity in Bayview, which has only two clinics providing medical and dental services to a community of over 35,000 residents. Daphne Young. Nowhere else in San Francisco is medical and/or dental care limited to just two locations: the Southeast Family Health Center, run by the San Francisco Public Health Department, and the Marin Health and Wellness Center in Bayview, which is now located in what was formerly the Coleman Medical Center. Our goal was to highlight the work that Dr. Rubin Sorrell II and the staff at the MHWC in Bayview are doing NOW for residents in this underserved community. It’s also important to recognize that most...