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By Meredith Gorfein
Rappahannock News Writer
There are people even in Rappahannock who are falling between the cracks. They have no health insurance and cannot afford to buy it.
They are referred to as the “working poor,” which simply means that they are working, they do not receive health insurance benefits from their employers, and their wages are not great enough to be able to afford health insurance.
Often they and their families go without adequate health care.
The Rappahannock Free Clinic is here to help. Its mission is to “provide excellent health care to people that do not have access to health care services.” And that includes people who are in-between jobs, those who have just moved into the area, farm workers and their families and those families experiencing temporary difficulties.
Any person who resides in Rappahannock who has no health insurance and who lives in a low income household is encouraged to come to the Free Clinic for excellent primary health care and medicines.
The Rappahannock Free Clinic operates out of the Health Department in Washington at the corner of Main Street and Harris Hollow Road.
The doors open at 5:30 p.m. for signing in on the first, third and fifth Wednesday of every month. No one has ever been turned away, but they try to take no more than 12 patients per session.
The Free Clinic is staffed by volunteer doctors, nurses and administrative staff. For every session there will be a doctor, at least three nurses and an administrative support staff providing care.
The Free Clinic opened its doors in Rappahannock in January, 2001 and is the local office of the Fauquier Free Clinic.
Many of the Rappahannock Free Clinic’s first patients had been going to
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