Lincoln Community Health Center

Lincoln Community Health Center is a preventive and primary health care facility serving the Durham community since September 1971. The health center was founded by Dr. Charles DeWitt Watts, the first African American board certified surgeon in North Carolina. Dr. Watts was chief of surgery at Lincoln Hospital. However, with Lincoln Hospital’s closing in the mid-1970’s, Dr. Watts recognized the patients he treated would still need a facility for their primary health care needs. The Lincoln Community Health Center emerged from Dr. Watts and others’ desire to treat a low income, underserved population in the community where they lived and worked. Dr. Watts died in 2004 at age 86.

Today, Lincoln Community Health Center is accredited and certified as a Primary Care Medical Home by The Joint Commission and offers a wide range of services including: pediatrics, adolescent health, adult medicine, family medicine, dental and behavioral health. Our main site is located at 1301 Fayetteville Street Durham NC 27701

Our mission is to provide primary and preventive health care in a courteous, professional, and personalized manner.

Two of our satellites are:

 Early Intervention Clinic (EI Clinic)

We are located in the Durham County Human Services building at 414 East Main Street, 1st Floor, Clinic #7

The Lincoln Community Health Center Early Intervention Clinic offers primary care and HIV specialty clinical services. Services offered include adult medical examination, evaluation and treatments, laboratory, mental health and substance abuse counseling, immunizations, TB testing, health education, medical case management, medication adherence, and assistance with obtaining prescribed medications. Referrals are made for specialty medical care, dental care, x-ray, family planning, housing benefits, food and clothing pantry, HIV case management, and legal assistance.

Patients can call 919-560-7726 to schedule an appointment.

 Durham County Human Services Primary Care Clinic (PCC)

We are located in the Durham County Human Services building at 414 East Main Street, 1st Floor, Clinic #7

The Primary Care Clinic is a collaboration between Lincoln Community Health Center and the Durham County Department of Public Health. We are a team dedicated to expanding access to quality primary and preventive health care services to the Durham Community. Aside from primary care our services include:

Transgender services: hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

PrEP: PrEP is a pill that you can take once a day to prevent the transmission of HIV

Hepatitis C: an 8-12 week treatment to cure Hepatitis C.

Patients can call 919-560-7785 to schedule an appointment.