Fayette CARE Clinic, Inc.
128 Sumner Road
Fayetteville, Georgia  30214

Phone 770.487.4778 - Fax 770.487.4645
Email info@fayettecareclinic.com

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   Compassion And Respect  for Everyone

About Us

The Fayette CARE Clinic is designed to help fill a gap in our health care delivery system.  Typically,  our patients are likely to delay medical care because they cannot afford to see a doctor, putting themselves at risk of a health crisis due to a lack of preventive care.  Many who do manage an  initial doctor visit are unable to afford needed medications or  follow-up visits to completely resolve the illness. 

 

Fayette CARE Clinic Facts

 

Clinic is located at 128 Sumner Road in Fayetteville, Georgia.  The 2200 sq ft facility has easy access from Hwy 54 and is expected to open in the spring 2006.
   
The Fayette CARE Clinic provides free routine, non-emergency, medical and dental services to residents of Fayette County without medical insurance and whose income is up to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.
   
Obtained verbal commitments for in-kind services from Piedmont Fayette Hospital, pharmaceutical companies, and businesses.
   
Have commitments from over 100 volunteers to help fund and operate the clinic. Volunteers include physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, technicians, assistants, clergy and others in all walks of life.
   
Accepts as patients those who reside in Fayette County without health insurance and with incomes up to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.
   
Will provide free basic health screening and non-emergency medical and dental services, health education and referrals to specialists and hospitals for lab test, x-rays, surgery and other services.
   
This health care delivery system is modeled after the Hilton Head Volunteers in Medicine Clinic that opened in 1993. It now serves more than 20,000 patients each year and has been used as a model for 30 other VIM clinics now operating in 16 states, and an additional 48 clinics in development.
   
Funding for the Fayette CARE Clinic is based solely on community support and donations.   Donations are tax-deductible.
   
Estimates show that there are 1.4 million uninsured individuals in Georgia and about 18% of Fayette County population is uninsured.
   
A Board of Directors (volunteers) will provide management, administrative and financial expertise and will be responsible for the allocation of funds.
   
   

Facts about Fayette County  - Working without Health Care

   

 

Companies engaged in business in Georgia must provide employee benefits in the form of Unemployment Insurance, Workers’ Compensation, Social Security and Medicare but are not required by law to offer health care insurance, paid sick days, vacation or similar benefits.  Occupations in service-producing industries, such as retail trade, construction and hospitality, are particularly vulnerable to a lack of health care benefits, as are employees of most small businesses with less than 25 workers. 
   

 

Our solitary hospital, Piedmont-Fayette Community Hospital, has become the source of primary care for much of our target group.  In fiscal year 2003, PFCH provided $4.5 million in uncompensated indigent and charity care.  Further, PFCH wrote off an additional $6.6 million in uncollected debt, where there was no income documentation to support the claim of indigent or charity care.   This  $11.1 million provided health care to 4,356 people, of which 261 were hospital admissions and 4,095 were outpatients, primarily treated through the hospital’s emergency room. 
   
Approximately 10.34% of students enrolled in Fayette County Schools are eligible for free or reduced price meals – a direct indication of needed support
   

Benefits

There are many benefits to using, supporting, donating or encouraging the Fayette CARE Clinic. Benefits will extend beyond the uninsured families that receive services. Such benefits include:

 

Patient

delivering health care in a compassionate and respectful environment that ministers to the whole person, not just their physical needs.

 

 

Hospitals

non-paying patients will be taken out of the emergency room and cared for in a proper primary care setting where they can be treated cost effectively.

 

 

Local business

increasing the health and wellness of a substantial part of their work force.

 

 

Care Givers and Volunteers

building a sense of community and caring that transcends barriers and delivers a sense of joy and worth to those who serve.

   

 

For more information about Fayette County, please visit the following links:

http://www.fayettega.org/

http://www.admin.co.fayette.ga.us/

 

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