April 25, 2008
Sold her house to open a clinic
CNN.com has a story posted about a doctor who left private practice, sold her house, and opened a clinic focused on providing health care for the poor.
In 2002, these efforts resulted in "The Clinic: Medical Center for the Uninsured," a charitable, sun-filled clinic that has since received more than 40,000 patient visits.
Individuals receive free or low-cost primary medical care across eight specialties, regardless of income or locality.
"Since there's no need to spend a lot of time doing paperwork, we have time to talk to the patient and really hear what they're saying," says Stuart. "So the patients go away feeling they've been heard, that they've been helped."
An arsenal of more than 100 local volunteers, including 20 retired and practicing physicians, assist Stuart in providing expert medical services to more than 800 patients per month from across the southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware area.