Helping Hands Health Clinic
Dear Family of God:
The Raleigh County Cooperative Parish and United Methodist
Churches and First Baptist Church is starting a Health Clinic in
the old TCI building on First Avenue. It will be a health clinic
to server people in our community who have inadequate means of
medical service. The service will be free to the individual and
will be available in the evenings and perhaps on a Saturday, if
warranted. It will be an all volunteer service of people and
professionals from the area. Medication will be furnished to the
patient as warranted by the attending physician. This will be
done through a pharmacy provided by the clinic.
Doing this requires quite a bit of expense in getting it off the
ground and then maintaining it in the future. We are asking the
area churches for assistance with some startup money and any
volunteer methods they would like to be involved in. We can apply
for some grants after we are up and running but we will have to
wait for at least two years for most of these. Any help you could
give us would be greatly appreciated as we are anxious to get the
clinic started. Research has shown this a very needed thing in
this area of the state. This will also be a great outreach source
for the religious community, by showing how much we care for
people in our area.
We have an advisory board in place to get things going. It
consists of thirty two people of different expertise in fields
associated with the clinic. They are people from different
religious and cultural backgrounds working for a common goal.
This board must vote on anything that will be down in setting up
and maintaining the clinic. No one person or group will have
control of the clinic. We will be glad to furnish this list to
you. Also, the operation of the organization will be available
for public knowledge as requested.
If you would like to meet with me, have me talk with any members
of your organization, or give you more information, please let me
know. David Carrico of First Baptist (Email: dlcarrico@citynet.net), or Gregory Hayes
of First United Methodist (Email: ghayes@cwv.net), would be glad to
give any needed confirmation of this project. Their phone numbers
are First Baptist Church, 253-4252; First United Methodist
252-3435.
Jackie Snead, President
P.O. Box 2222
Beckley, WV 25802
bjsnead@excite.com
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