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Causes: Charter Schools, Education
Mission: The organization operates a medical and dental clinic for the promotion of physical, emotional and spiritual health in the community.
Programs: The medical clinic provided 1,550 appointments during the year to patients who have no public or private third-party payer coverage and whose personal resources are insufficient to provide for their needed health care. The clinic sees each patient an average of 2. 5 times in the clinic for physical needs and prayer. At each visit spiritual and emotional care is emphasized and extended services for counseling and recovery, support groups, and church services are offered. The clinic also works with patients who are unable to pay for their medications by assisting them in signing up with pharmaceutical companies to take advantage of the companies' free drug programs. The clinic does not charge a fee for its services or medications. An average of over 20 physicians and nurses volunteer time each month to meet the needs of patients. There are many physicians who voluntarily treat patients in their own medical offices when their needs cannot be met at the organizations facilities. The total estimated value of medical services provided is 735,000. There are a number of other non medical/dental volunteers that provided approximately 14,000 worth of donated labor services throughout the year. Approximately 1,360,000 of necessary medications are donated to the pharmaceutical room from various donors to help meet the clients' needs.
the dental clinic provided 399 appointments during the year to patients who have no public or private third-party payer coverage and whose personal resources are insufficient to provide for their needed health care. At each visit spiritual and emotional care is emphasized and extended services are offered. The clinic does not charge a fee for its services or medications. There was an average of 12 dentists & hygienists who volunteer time each month to meet the needs of the patients. Besides the dental staff, there are many other dentists who treat patients in their own facilities. Other volunteers are used throughout the process to meet the needs of the patients. Donated labor and donated dental services accounted for an additional 156,000 of additional support to the clinic during the year.