Mission
Our Mission
The Moses/Weitzman Health System is America’s first health system dedicated to primary care for underserved populations.
Working across the United States and beyond, Moses/Weitzman focuses on the people and communities most likely to experience health disparities due to multiple factors including socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, gender, and environmental injustice.
Companies within the Moses/Weitzman Health System advance the delivery of primary and specialty care through practice, research, systems transformation, and training the next generation of health care leaders.
At Moses/Weitzman, we are groundbreaking in our approach to health care, while remaining grounded in the communities we do it for.
About Reba Moses and Gerry Weitzman
The Moses/Weitzman Health System is named for Lillian Reba Hyman Moses and Gerard Weitzman, who were among the earliest supporters and board members of Community Health Center, Inc.
Reba Moses (1924-2012)
Reba Moses grew up in South Carolina, where she experienced the racial segregation and oppression of the Jim Crow era. As an adult, she moved to Middletown, Connecticut, and devoted her life to fighting for civil rights and the needs of people who faced poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to health care. As a community activist, she accomplished many things, and was instrumental to the formation of the Middlesex County branch of the NAACP. Reba was a mentor to the founder, president and CEO of Community Health Center, Inc., the original organization in what became, over 50 years later, the Moses/Weitzman Health System. Always a health care champion who believed in the power of people to make positive change, Reba Moses served the health center for decades as a board member and an inspiration.
Gerard (Gerry) Weitzman (1938-1999)
Gerry Weitzman was a pharmacist who owned Pelton’s Drug Store, a thriving business in Middletown, Connecticut. His family had emigrated from Ukraine, where they escaped the violence directed against Jewish people. His relationship with Community Health Center, Inc. began in 1972 when he surprised its dental clinic with a donation of equipment and medicine. Gerry’s commitment to health care as a social justice issue and his zest for innovation led him to join the Center’s original board of directors. He championed the Center’s growth and embraced the development of sites across Connecticut, including in schools and shelters. In 2006, the board named its new research program, the Weitzman Institute, after Gerry, for his belief that every idea that can help people should be explored, evaluated, and shared.
