WHO WE ARE
Crusader Community Health is a non-profit community health center that provides primary medical, dental, and behavioral health care for more than 63,000 people in northern Illinois.
We’re committed to making high-quality health care accessible to everyone. Our providers and support staff are both knowledgeable and compassionate, making sure everyone who walks through our doors feels comfortable and cared for.
OUR MISSION
Serve the Rock River Valley with quality primary health care for all people in need.
OUR VISION
Reaching out with Heart in Hand – championing the needs of the underserved and providing health care for all, regardless of their ability to pay, as we eliminate disparities in health care.
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT/CEO
Crusader helps bridge gaps and knock down barriers to quality care for all, regardless of their insurance status, income or circumstances. Our team takes pride in providing comprehensive, high-quality, affordable and accessible primary care, immediate care, pediatrics, women’s health, dental, and behavioral health care.
Expanding access to care is central to our strategic goal of growth. Crusader on Linden opened to patients in July in south Rockford and features adult and family medicine, pediatrics, women’s health, behavioral health, and CrusaderNOW! immediate care. Construction is underway at 1201 E. State St., a dedicated Women’s Health site that will bring essential services together in one convenient, patient-centered location when it opens in summer 2027.
Relocating most prenatal, obstetric and gynecologic services from Broadway to a larger, more centralized facility nearly twice the size will create an environment designed specifically around women. It also makes way for our plans to rebuild our clinic at 1100 Broadway, which is currently our oldest and busiest clinic. Our Broadway site was never designed to function as a modern health care center, and the facility faces significant limitations. By relocating Women’s Health and other services, we can invest in the neighborhood and build a modern, efficient clinic designed to better serve patients, staff and the surrounding community.
Please stay tuned for more information about supporting our growth. Thank you for your continued support!
Samuel G. Miller
President & CEO
Crusader Community Health
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HISTORY &
KEY DATES
Sister Catherine Francis established the first well-baby clinic in 1966 at St. Elizabeth’s social center in Rockford, in partnership with the Visiting Nurses Association. The clinic operated one day each month for just two hours.
In a few years, the need for preventative pediatric primary care grew. That’s where Crusader began. A professional board was established in 1969, and it was chartered as a nonprofit in 1970.
MORE ABOUT CRUSADER
Crusader is a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C. 254b, and a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C. 233(g)-(n).
Crusader receives HHS funding and has Federal PHS deemed status with respect to certain health or health related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.