On April 18, 2017, Dr. Stanley Block celebrates his 40th anniversary with The Providence Community Health Centers. Inc.  After serving as Chief Medical Officer of PCHC for 39 of the 40 years, Dr. Stanley Block remains committed to PCHC; Dr. Block now runs the Asthma-Allergy Clinic at PCHC’s Prairie Avenue Health Center. Dr. Block is board certified in Allergy & Immunology as well as in Pediatrics. Dr. Block began his community health center career at Roxbury Community Health Center in Boston and joined PCHC in 1977. (At that time, the organization was called Providence Ambulatory Health Care Foundation.)  Today, through PCHC’s Asthma-Allergy Clinic, Dr. Block and his team of nurses and patient educators, provide care to patients of all ages with asthma, breathing problems, nasal allergies, chronic sinusitis, eczema, urticarial, angioedema and food allergies.  

Photo: Dr. Stanley Block pictured here with Dan Hawkins, Senior VP of the National Association of Community Health Centers. Hawkins is praising Dr. Block for his decades of effort to persuade Congress to expand the federal malpractice program to cover all of the community health centers in the United States. The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) saves millions of dollars annually for Federally Qualified Health Centers across the country, allowing them to use their revenues to provide care for more people.

Dr. Stanley Block received his BA from The University of Chicago, and his MD from Yale School of Medicine.  He did his pediatric training at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia University in New York.  Before working with community health centers, Dr. Block was Captain and Major in the United States Army Medical Corps.