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Editorial: Free Clinics Left out of Stimulus Package Health care in the U.S. was in a crisis long before the pink slips started coming. More than 300,000 Connecticut residents were among the country’s 47 million uninsured before the economic troubles began – and the numbers continue to grow daily as more workers lose their jobs and health insurance. 04/04/09 Fourteen years after she began volunteering for AmeriCares Norwalk clinic, Susan Garofoli is still astounded by the numbers of families without health insurance. Thanks to a $2,500 donation of Rite Aid gift cards, AmeriCares Free Clinics can tailor their inventory to patients’ needs. AmeriCares operates three clinics in Connecticut that provide free health care to low-income residents without health insurance. Rite Aid has more than 5,000 drug stores nationwide, including stores near AmeriCares clinics in Bridgeport, Norwalk and Danbury. Weisman Clinic Opens in Bridgeport's Hollow Section AmeriCares Free Clinics opened its newest location in Bridgeport, Conn., in late September, to a crowd of nearly 100 onlookers including the city's mayor, John Fabrizi, who helped find the space to house the clinic in Bridgeport's Hollow section. 10/05/07 Practicing Old Fashioned Medicine… Being the Medical Director of AmeriCares Free Clinic of Norwalk is not Dr. Jack Falsone’s first experience volunteering in a clinic setting. Early in his career he volunteered at the Winchester Chest Clinic at Yale New Haven Hospital. How We Help: One Patient's Story There are more than 400,000 people living without health insurance in Connecticut, and every single one of them has a story. For nearly 10 years, one young woman from New Milford had been seeking help without any success. Then she found out about the AmeriCares Free Clinics. Here is her story: "I am writing this letter on behalf of my experience with the clinic. AmeriCares is run by angels here on earth. I suppose the only way for you to understand my gratitude is for you to know my story. . ." Clinic Expansion Benefits Community For someone without health insurance, life can be pretty uncertain. Across the country, those without health insurance can be sure of one thing . . . there will be more joining their ranks each year. The AmeriCares Free Clinics offer hope and health to this growing number of people in southwestern Connecticut.
Celebrating 10 Years of Community Service in Danbury The AmeriCares Free Clinic of Danbury will celebrate its 10th anniversary in January, recognizing a decade of providing quality health care to Danbury's working poor. Since it opened in 1997, the AmeriCares Free Clinic of Danbury has provided health care services valued at nearly $6.5 million to more than 5,500 uninsured community residents. 01/22/07 Danbury Clinic Celebrates 10 Years The AmeriCares Free Clinic of Danbury celebrated its 10th anniversary on January 18, honoring a decade of providing quality health care to the Greater Danbury Area’s uninsured working poor. Among those turning out to support the clinic at the evening celebration were Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton.
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