Article: Bon Secours wants to have a big impact on neighborhood.(Local)

By Harry Minium

The Virginian-Pilot

NORFOLK

It worked in Baltimore. Now, Bon Secours officials hope it works in East Ocean View.

In 1995, the Roman Catholic health care organization began an experiment in a troubled west Baltimore neighborhood adjacent to one of its hospitals. Over the years, Bon Secours helped construct 559 units of affordable housing, set up a family support center, opened a community bank that offers job placement and financial training, and helped residents landscape their streets.

Doing so, Bon Secours officials said, helped ease misery in the poverty-stricken neighborhood.

Now, Bon Secours ...

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