Jan 11

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1/11/2012 12:55 PM 

Community Volunteers in Medicine meets the health care needs of the working poor in Chester County.  Volunteer health care practitioners serve uninsured families earning less than 300% of the poverty level.

The free primary medical, dental and prescription services allow the recipients to continue to be productive members of the community.  The $24,000 grant for General Operating Support enabled Community Volunteers in Medicine to expand its clinical hours and increase by 15 percent the free patient visits it provided during the year – 17,623, or more than 1,450 a month. 

The organization was able to maximize the enormous contributions of its volunteer health care practitioners and to complement the more targeted giving it has been able to attract from its own donor base.  The flexibility of the grant enabled the organization to seize opportunities – both for developing programs and for bringing on essential staff – in timely ways.  CVIM was able to move quickly when the opportunity arose to bring onto its staff a person who was uniquely suited to meeting the needs of the patients and of the organization. The funding made it possible to identify needs that weren’t anticipated in the previous year, such as social work intervention or expediting the referral of a critically ill patient to hospital care, and to address them in a timely fashion.

It supported the redirecting of resources to patient care through operational efficiencies and allowed more efficient and informative data collection so it could better assess patient needs.

CVIM Slideshow - The Philadelphia Foundation

CVIM Slideshow - The Philadelphia Foundation
The $24000 grant for General Operating Support enabled Community Volunteers in Medicine to expand its clinical hours and increase by 15 percent the free ...
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