By Lana Uhrig, CEO
The 3rd quarter of operations
for Hope Clinic (July-September)
has been an exciting roller coaster
of a journey!
The growth has been tremendous
and the needs we are seeing
met through our programs and
those provided through our generous
partnerships is without a doubt
one of the most miraculous things I've ever witnessed.
Hope Clinic continues to strive
to provide a variety of services to
help meet the needs of the whole
person.
We have started an exciting
partnership with Prevent Blindness
Ohio for vision services
(please read about this on page 4).
Furthermore, we recognize the
fact that getting well from disease
and illness is difficult if one doesn't have access to healthy and nutritious
foods.
Therefore, we have began a
collaboration with Mid-Ohio
Foodbank, Ross County Hunger
Summit, and the Ross County
Commissioners to provide twice
monthly food distribution on
clinic nights to those in need, and
especially to our clinic patients.
Now each patient seen on these
evenings can leave Hope Clinic
with a box of fresh food to help
them in their healing.
The details included throughout
this newsletter provide a snapshot
of our programs and clinic
activity for the months of July
through September 2012. More
specifically, during these months
we have seen a 35% growth in our
average weekly clinic visits. As
well, plans are being made to add
three additional physician specialists
(psychiatry, dermatology, and
podiatry).
Referral to these specialists
will come through a direct referral
from one of our Hope Clinic physicians
or nurse practitioners. Specialist visits are scheduled
visits as they are only available on
specific nights.
As most of you are aware,
Hope Clinic provides all of these
great services through the dedicated
support of a 100% volunteer
staff!
We are so very grateful for the
continued support from our volunteers,
our community, and our
churches whose partnerships have
allowed Hope Clinic to exist.
We thank our Ross County
community for coming together to
allow us ALL to realize the benefit
of Hope in something beyond
and bigger than ourselves and
most importantly the opportunity
we have been provided to grow
and work together as a community
for a common purpose.
