Pictured from left are Sandra Harris-Dorrado, M.D., Volunteer Medical Director of Grand View Hospital; Todd Hurley, Executive Vice President, COO, of First Savings; David C. Damsker, M.D., MPH, Director of Bucks County Department of Health; John J. Pagan, M.D., F.A.C.S., Founding Physician of Pennridge Surgical Associates; Sally Fabian, RN, MSN, Executive Director of Bucks County Health Improvement Partnership.
First Savings Community Foundation recently donated $1,000 to the ‘Volunteer Doctors Care’, Upper Bucks Clinic (VDC-UBC). The clinic, established in 2008 by Dr. Gerrianne Burke of St. Luke’s Quakertown Hospital and Dr. John Pagan of Grand View Hospital, in collaboration with Bucks County Health Improvement Partnership, is a means of providing quality health care to low-income uninsured adults in our community who would otherwise be without essential medical care.
Volunteer Doctors Care, Upper Bucks Clinic is funded through the generous donations of members of our community, and uses donated clinic space at the Bucks County Health Department office, located at 261 California Road in Quakertown. A group of more than 25 caring physicians make up the staff of the free clinic, to which the uninsured patients are extremely grateful. More than 900 clinic visits have been made since the clinic’s opening.
Presently, the clinic is open one evening per week, providing primary and specialist medical care, prescriptions as well as social work to ensure patients have access to all available services in the area. Services are available at no cost to adults who reside within the school district areas of Pennridge, Quakertown and Palisades Districts, who have no health insurance with low-income status.
Sally Fabian, Executive Director of the Bucks County Health Improvement Partnership (BCHIP), has stated, “Thank you doesn’t begin to convey our gratitude and appreciation on behalf of the adults who receive professional, compassionate, dignified care as a result of your generosity…”
For more information about Volunteer Doctors Care or to make a tax deductible contribution, please call Sally Fabian at 215-710-5079 or sallyfabian.cares@gmail.com.