Dayspring Family Health Center is a not-for-profit community health center that is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to affordable quality health care.
We are committed to providing our patients with comprehensive medical care in a fair and gentle manner.
We regard a community as healthy when its members
begin life with hope,
experience life with joy,
and end life with dignity.
We are convinced that many health problems have community causes and
community solutions.
Therefore, our ultimate purpose is to promote
the full health – physical, spiritual, mental, and economic
– of the communities we serve.
In the summer of 1976, the Clear Fork Clinic was joined with two other community clinics to become Laurel Fork-Clear Fork Health Centers, Inc., one of the first federally-funded community health centers in the state of Tennessee. Dr. Jesse Walker, who had worked with these clinics since 1970, became the center’s first full-time physician and medical director. Indian Mountain Clinic opened in 1985, and Cumberland River Clinic in Williamsburg, KY was added in 1994.
Laurel Fork-Clear Fork Health Centers, Inc., changed its name to Dayspring Family Health Center in February of 1998. The new name points to our present and future in two special ways. First, we want our name to highlight the value we place on healthy families. Second, we want our organization’s name to reflect our effort to combine medical needs with spiritual and social needs when we look for ways to contribute to our patients’ well being.
Dayspring refers to the dawning of the day and is taken from the Gospel of Luke 1:78. We associate the dawn with security, joy, forgiveness, hope, peace, and insight — all traits we hope are characteristic of the service we provide to our friends and neighbors.
“Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
