Reaching the landing at the top of the stairs on the second floor of the Esperanza Health Center in Philadelphia’s Hunting Park neighborhood, Susan M. Post, D.Min., MBA, pauses a moment to gaze out a wall of windows onto a vista of red-brick rowhomes.

“I like this space in our building that overlooks our neighborhood because it reminds us all the time that we belong to the community and that we are a part of it, and it is us,” says Post, executive director of the community health center (CHC) located in a predominantly Latino and Black section of the city.

The windows, she says, also allow neighbors to see into the CHC and know that its providers are there to care for their health and well-being.

“It embodies to me that we belong together,” says Post, a soft-spoken former New York City

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