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GMFC Benefit Concert
Cowboy Troy on March 6, 2010 at the Gloucester Moose Lodge
Tickets sold at both clinic locations. For more information call 804-210-1368.
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Thank
You!
Tomlinson Exterminators for all
you do for us!
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We need the following supplies as donations…
- Medical Trash Cans with Foot Levers
- Various Quantity of Shelves
- Rolling Chart Rack
- Built-in desk or small computer table
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Historical
Perspective |
- Gloucester-Mathews
Free Clinic will celebrate 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.
- A
regional cancer screening
program through an Anthem Blue
Cross-Blue Shield Grant.
- 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.
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- In 2007,
the Clinic experienced a 66% growth rate
in patient visits.
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2008
Volunteer Support |
| Type |
# |
Hours |
Service
Value |
| Physicians |
18 |
485.40 |
$
60,675 |
Nurses
(RNs, LPNs, MAs) |
23 |
553.82 |
$12,154 |
| Pharmacists |
8 |
164.50 |
$
9,212 |
| Pharmacy
Techs |
14 |
114.70 |
$
2,860 |
| Administrative |
36 |
2124.50 |
$42,490 |
| Totals |
99 |
3,442.92 |
$127,390 |
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2008
Major Achievements |
| How the GMFC Helped in 2008: |
- 3,286 patient medical visits valued at $879,898, up from 2105 patient visits in 2007
- Provided 14,028 prescriptions valued at $1,325,617 up from 11,983 prescriptions, valued at $991,193 in 2007
- Partnered with Northern Neck Free Dental Clinic, H.E.L.P. Free Dental Clinic who provided dental care for 516 GMFC patients valued at $256,662 up from 171 GMFC patients valued at $211,789 in 2007.
- Total value of all the services we provided to over 1,200 patients was $2,588,424
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| Grants/Community
Support |
| $123,559 |
Williamsburg
Community Health Foundation |
| $107,586 |
Virginia
Association of Free Clinics |
| $85.368 |
Fundraising |
| $
85,113 |
Virginia
Health Care Foundation |
| $
69,436 |
Donations |
| $
50,750 |
Community
Foundations |
| $
30,551 |
Consortium
Grants |
| $
20,000 |
Bernardine
Franciscan Sisters Foundation |
| $
20,000 |
Local
Government |
| $
14,595 |
New
Foundation Grants |
| $606,958 |
2008
Totals
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