Commonwealth Health Free Clinic Inc

Programs: Commonwealth health free clinic, inc. ("chfc") was organized to operate a clinic, which provides basic medical and dental diagnostic and treatment services for charitable purposes for the uninsured and underinsured of south-central kentucky and also serves individuals who may be covered by some form of insurance, but who are unable to access a provider for acute or chronic healthcare issues. The clinic offers services including non-emergency clinical services, dentistry, community health education and counseling, disease/condition specific education and counseling, and access to pharmaceuticals. The corporation offers services such as: - outpatient community health promotion services - community health education and counseling - disease/condition specific education and counseling - foreign language translation services - outpatient community non-emergency clinical services primary carepreventive services (e. G . Health education/promotion) - coordination of care and social support services - special clinic services - dentistry in addition, the dental program has been expanded to include individuals with income at or below 250% of federal poverty guidelines. The clinic is located at 740 east tenth street, bowling green, kentucky. The clinic opened january 2, 1996. During the fiscal year ending march 31, 2017, the free clinic provided patients assistance through 3,335 patient visits which included over 2,200 dental visits. In addition, the free clinic had 813 volunteer hours and provided 3,850 prescriptions and 3,301 diagnostic procedures. Since the free clinic began, the free clinic has had over 64,000 volunteer hours and has provided patients assistance through more than 116,000 patient visits and has provided over 343,200 prescriptions.