A partnership between Evergreen Health and Community Access Services.
A partnership between Evergreen Health and Community Access Services.
One
impactful
intersection.
Where health
equity meets
access.
A new comprehensive healthcare center is coming to the historic intersection of Kensington and Bailey Avenues. Here, health equity will meet access. Change will meet action. Patients will meet hope. And a neighborhood that has been underserved for far too long will have more of its needs met. Because it’s the right thing to do. And it’s overdue. It’s time for friends, neighbors, and kindhearted strangers to come together, to come here, to
Predominantly Black and Brown communities
like the Ken-Bailey neighborhood on Buffalo’s East Side have historically been held back by insufficient funding, development, and access to healthcare.
The Ken-Bailey neighborhood
is a federally designated medically underserved area due to a lack of appropriate healthcare resources needed to meet the needs of the population. These systemic factors continue to contribute to segregation, poverty, health disparities, and, ultimately, inequity.
As this community looks to the future, Evergreen Health and Community Access Services (CAS) are leading the Ken-Bailey Project to ensure the neighborhood has the resources and opportunities for improving health and well-being. They strive to support health equity efforts by adopting health equity best practices and strengthening their commitment to creating an inclusive, thriving community.
A new health hub will allow us to expand the types of services we provide as well as bring even more community partners directly to the neighborhood, eliminating the need for individuals to leave their neighborhoods to seek the services they need and deserve. I believe that this health hub will close the health disparity gap that has impacted this community for decades.
It’s critical that the Ken-Bailey Project is unconditionally accessible and culturally sensitive. We spent more than a year meeting with people in the community, listening to what they want from a new healthcare hub in their neighborhood. Our goal is for this to be a community project, a shared space where we can come together and really move the needle on health equity in this area.
Eradicate Health Inequity through Unconditional Care.
This is our collective goal. This is bigger than healthcare and bigger than Buffalo. While the Ken-Bailey neighborhood will be most directly impacted by this new facility, we are hopeful that this model of accessible community care will become an example for addressing health inequity across the nation.
Contact us
For media inquiries, contact us at mcarrig@evergreenhs.org.
For general information, email us at info@kenbaileyproject.org.
Contractor Interest
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The Latest
In the News
03/24/2025
The Buffalo News published an article, "What will it take to ‘bring back Bailey'?" discussing the current redevelopment efforts transforming Bailey Avenue.
Project Update
02/19/2025
Evergreen Health and Community Access Services (CAS) announced today the first phase of site work for the Ken-Bailey Project was completed, celebrating yet another milestone.
In the News
02/07/2025
Each February 7 is CAS Day in Buffalo, a day to celebrate how CAS empowers communities of color through services and programs that are created for and by communities of color.