About Us

Board of Directors

The mission of the Gloucester-Mathews Free Clinic is to provide community-based healthcare for the residents of Gloucester and Mathews Counties who lack health insurance or enough income to pay for it. Our goal is to provide this care through the efforts of volunteers and paid professional and support staff, and through contributions. 

Board of Directors 2009-2010:

• PRESIDENT
  Paula Haggerty
  Small Business Owner
  
  
• VICE PRESIDENT
  John McCormack 
  Retired Engineer
  
  
• SECRETARY
  C. Richard Pogue
  Mutual Fund Industry Exec. (Retired)
  
  
• TREASURER
  Linda Gaskins
  Mortgage Banker
  
  
• DIRECTORS
  Judy Cathey
  Mental Health Professional
  
  Stephanie Heinatz
  Marketing Specialist
  
  Adam Taylor
  Funeral Director, Hogg Funeral Home
  
  Kevin Smith
  Security Director/Minister
  
  Francis (Frank) T. West III, MD
  Family Medicine
  
  
  EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS
  
  
• MEDICAL DIRECTOR
  Wayne J. Reynolds, DO
  Family Medicine
  
  Ann Quinn
  Retired Social Worker
  

STAFF

Kay G. Bradley
Executive Director
10183 Bumpy Road, Pine Haven
Gloucester, VA 23061
administrator@gmfc.hrcoxmail.com

• Gloucester-Mathews Free Clinic  celebrated its 10th Anniversary on July 30, 2008.
• The idea for a local medical clinic to serve the "working poor", or those who are employed but cannot afford insurance, came out of a mid-1997 discussion among members of the Abingdon Episcopal Church outreach committee.  Enthusiasm for the idea spread from the church members to the community, including local medical professionals.
• The supporters organized and in December 1997 kicked off a $74,000 drive for funds to establish the clinic and to cover its expenses through 1998.   Peggy Bowditch was a co-director of the Campaign.
• The Campaign got a big boost when Riverside Walter Reed Hospital contributed a matching grant of $25,000 and use of its former satellite facility at Gloucester Point.  The Campaign surpassed its goal in March 1998.
• The Gloucester-Mathews Free Clinic (GMFC) held an Open House on July 30, 1998.
• Judy Remsberg was the first paid Executive Director, Fred Arnold, M.D. was the first volunteer  Medical Director, and Rick Allen the first Pharmacist.
• In 2005, the Clinic became a partner forming the Greater Virginia Peninsula Consortium of Free Clinics, working with Lackey Free Clinic in Yorktown, H.E.L.P Free Clinic in Hampton, and Peninsula Christian Free Clinic in Newport News. 
• This Partnership has achieved impressive results:
  
  

  Charity Care Agreements with Riverside Health System, Mary Immaculate Hospital, and Sentara Hospital so that our uninsured patients can receive free services for diagnostic testing, outpatient and inpatient services. A shared data management system to generate regional public awareness regarding the large number of people who are uninsured. Funds to increase the hours of practitioners to serve in chronic care clinics through a grant with Riverside Health System Foundation. Funds to increase the hours of nurse practitioners to coordinate chronic care clinics through a grant with Riverside Health System Foundation. Funds to develop a regional dental program through grants from United Way of the Virginia Peninsula and the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation.