Mountain View, Calif.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Established in 1996 as a collaboration between the El Camino Hospital Foundation, local physicians, and the Rotary Clubs of Mountain View and Los Altos, the Mountain View RotaCare Free Clinic is the primary free clinic in northern Santa Clara County, California. The clinic handled 6,195 visits for 2,200 unduplicated patients last year.
Eighty-four physicians and 19 nurse practitioner and physician assistant volunteers are supported by a volunteer pool of over 100 other health care professionals (medical assistants, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, registered dieticians, and medical technicians) along with 48 lay volunteers such as skilled translators.
The clinic was awarded a $25,000 grant to expand their Women’s Gynecological Services Program which is in its fourth year. The program will provide an estimated 920 free gynecological services to 325 new low-income, uninsured women this year, up from 295 new patients last year. They will do this by expanding their capacity to handle 27 women per month and to provide referrals to other services within the clinic and outside. The clinic will also continue to document and share its methods with other free clinics, providing a model on how to design and operate medical specialty services like the Women’s Gynecological Services Program. Funds will specifically cover salaries for the program’s medical assistant and clinical nurse supervisor, as well as medical supplies and pharmaceuticals.
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