Direct Relief this week is shipping 250,000 N95 masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) to as many as 1,000 community health centers and free clinics in all 50 U.S. states that are playing a critical frontline role as Covid-19 spreads. “Direct Relief is doing everything it can to bolster the front lines of the […]
Centre Volunteers in Medicine’s bootstrapped effort to vaccinate thousands of Centre County residents against the coronavirus is spearheaded by a woman who has poured in at least 50 hours per week for months. Clinical Services Director Kristi Mattzela is the nonprofit’s COVID-19 vaccine coordinator, a wide-ranging job that includes everything from placing orders to scheduling […]
Philanthropic effort partners with clinics, physicians and medical professionals across America to provide free medications to low-income patients
Premed students can gain clinical knowledge and leadership skills while helping underserved patients at free clinics. Free medical clinics are health care clinics in the community that provide care to underserved patients at no cost to them. Some free medical clinics focus on specific patient populations like homeless individuals. Others are connected to community-based organizations […]
As the world continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the NAFC checked in with our members to gauge the current response efforts, capabilities and needs regarding testing and vaccination efforts amongst Free and Charitable Clinics and Pharmacies in the United States. This brief survey was completed in February 2021 by 530 NAFC Free and Charitable Clinic and […]
Mobile health care workers in rural Virginia are questioning the lack of coronavirus vaccines provided to poor and health-vulnerable communities. David Begnaud reports on one nurse practitioner’s stress-inducing wait for the vaccines.
Impressed with efforts at Open Door Mission, head of U.S. homeless council opts to get his vaccination there. OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – On Wednesday, the Open Door Mission became one of the very first homeless shelters in the country to vaccinate residents and staff against COVID-19. Three days before his birthday — and in between his cancer […]
We want to take a moment to address the violence that occurred at our Capitol yesterday. For the NAFC, the Capitol isn’t just a building seen on TV. It is where we work, it is where our friends work. We visit that building and meet with Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. […]
BLOOMINGTON – Home Sweet Home Ministries had no consistent way of transporting people from their shelter to various locations in the area. The Bloomington nonprofit serving the homeless and hungry received its first vehicle Wednesday from State Farm Insurance, along with four other local nonprofit organizations. “The donation of this van allows us to transport our […]
The way Isi Ikharebha Green landed in her role as president of Physicians CareConnection (PCC) was a bit unconventional, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. Green was a chemist, and she may have stayed on that path if it weren’t for a friend at the Columbus Medical Association, who encouraged her to apply […]
