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Community Support and Funding
In a recent report to the Florida
Department of Health, Volunteer Healthcare Provider Program we
reported 410 total number of licensed healthcare providers
volunteering their time for the year ending June 2004.
Additionally, dollar value of services for licensed volunteers as
$791,000; total value of donations, which include pharmaceuticals,
eyeglasses, labs, x-rays, and hospitals as over $816,000 for a
combined total of over $2,000,000.
We also reported that we saw an increase of 40% in total number of
patient's visits for 2004.
We have over 60 volunteers who donate their
time to the clinic each month. These include pharmacists,
nurses, medical technicians, clerical staff and others who do
housekeeping to building maintenance. Simply put, OUR
VOLUNTEERS DO A GREAT JOB! And those numbers do not include
all the physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners who rotate through
the clinic each month providing quality care.
Good Samaritan Health Clinic is privileged
to have many community partners who include, Community Hospital, New
Port Richey Surgery Center, North Bay Hospital, Regional Medical
Center Bayonet Point, Trinity Outpatient Center and Radiology
Associates who all accept our qualified patients at no cost.
Dr. Marc Yacht, Director of the Pasco County Health Department and
his staff are also major contributors of their time and talents to
the clinic. Without these dedicated partners and many others
the clinic simply could not exist.
The clinic receives a Community Development
Block Grant for medications and laboratory services. Recently,
we applied for and were granted two grants: one for our HepC Clinics and the other from the Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation to assist us to provide mammograms to uninsured
and underserved women of Pasco County.
The Clinic has two fund raisers a year:
Community Hospital has sponsored a Golf Tournament for four years
to benefit the Good Samaritan Health Clinic and the other is our
annual Tennis Tournament Classic. This year we celebrate the
13th Annual Best Tennis Weekend in Town sponsored by the Pasco
County Medical Society Alliance.
The Pasco County Medical Society continues
to be a major supporter of the clinic. The Medical Society as
well as the Medical Society Alliance has received many awards for
their contribution and support to this innovative clinic.
The West Pasco Dental Association is also a
major contributor to the clinic, providing funds and volunteer
dentists to staff the dental clinic on a weekly basis.
United Way of Pasco continues to be "our
angel". This is a partnership we value and consider it a
privilege to be a UNITED WAY AGENCY.
Announcing New Program:
Good Samaritan Health Clinic received a
$72,000 grant from Roche Pharmaceuticals to start a pilot program to
begin Hepatitis-C treatment.
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