Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at Hope Cottage for CeCe’s Place. Photo courtesy of Hope Cottage.
Hope Cottage, a North Texas nonprofit with a 106-year history, opens CeCe’s Place a new maternal medical clinic in East Dallas. The clinic aims to provide affordable, comprehensive healthcare for underserved pregnant individuals. It operates through a partnership between Hope Cottage HHM Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center.
Leadership from both organizations celebrated the clinic opening with a ribbon-cutting and tours attended by friends, funders and community representatives.
“Texas is in a maternal health crisis. We hope that CeCe’s Place can be a model, bringing affordable prenatal and postnatal care, along with comprehensive support for mothers, under one roof. Our goal is to create a loving and supportive environment where women can easily access the services they need to have healthy pregnancies and give their children strong starts in life,” said Stephanie Bohan, Chief Executive Officer of Hope Cottage.
CeCe’s Place is located inside Hope Cottage at 609 Texas Street in the Wilson District, offers low-cost pregnancy testing, Medicaid enrollment and prenatal/postnatal care. In coordination, Hope Cottage will provide mothers with parenting education, case management and referral to community resources during and after their pregnancies, as well as adoption information and counseling for interested individuals.
Patients served at the clinic will be referred to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas for labor and delivery. After delivery, HHM Health will continue to care for mothers at its Women’s Health Center in Vickery Meadow or CeCe’s Place and babies at its Pediatric Clinic off Walnut Hill Lane.
The new clinic is HHM Health’s seventh location, with other clinics in East Dallas on Greenville Avenue, in Vickery Meadow off Pineland Drive, a pediatric office off Walnut Hill Lane, a clinic in Oak Cliff at Trinity Basin Preparatory Jefferson Campus, and two DISD locations at DISD Kiosco Youth & Family Clinic and DISD Redbird Youth & Family Clinic. HHM Health’s nine service lines include women’s health, pediatrics, adult/family medicine, diet/nutrition, vision, dental, behavioral health, imaging and 340B pharmacy.
CeCe’s Place will feature unique pieces of art from award-winning Dallas-based artists and founder of DAUM Gallery, Taylor Daum, and internationally-recognized artist Leah Ellermeier, whose original acrylic on canvas titled “The Power of Love” will hang in the clinic lobby.
