SC free clinic model now replicated nationwide
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 04:00
in Health & Medicine
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- What began two decades ago on Hilton Head Island as a free clinic using retired physicians and volunteers to care for the working poor has become a model for dozens of similar clinics nationwide. At a time when the nation debates how to pay for care, there are now 96 Volunteers in Medicine Clinics in 29 states....