How is the Clinic helping? |
The Community
Free Clinic is a primary healthcare provider seeking to remove obstacles which prevent people from maintaining their health
and well-being.
The Clinic offers
continuity of care, laboratory screenings and needed medications.
The Clinic partners with many community organizations to coordinate services.
When needed, patients
are referred to specialists for more extensive evaluation and treatment based on availability.
All services are provided at no
cost to the patient due to the support of our community.
Who receives care at the Clinic? |
The
working patient: The majority of Clinic patients are employed, either full-time or part-time, but are not offered health
care benefits or cannot afford the health care insurance premiums. In addition, we provide care for those that are between
jobs and are not yet eligible for state or federal insurance assistance programs.
This displaced/homeless: Those individuals that are fleeing abusive situations and seeking respite, those
who have recently lost health care benefits due to the loss of employment or loss of coverage, the homeless, those recently
released from prison or the detention center and divorced/separated men and women who have been dropped
from spouse’s coverage.
The recently uninsured: Young adults no longer carried on their parents insurance.
The loss of primary care physician: Those individuals/families with outstanding medical bills with their
physicians and are unable to return to the practice because of unpaid medical expenses.
The Community Free
Clinic will provide medical assistance to any citizen of Washington County Maryland who is without any other means of insurance
or care.
