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Printed MaterialMeadowview Health Clinic
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Door-to-door community surveys conducted in March 2002 and in October and November 2004 documented that in Meadowview, Virginia, one in three families lack health insurance, 49% of residents are elderly or disabled, and 66% identify as low or moderate income. Twenty-one percent of residents travel thirty miles or more for basic health care services.
There are over four hundred Hispanic workers in the nine-county area surrounding Meadowview; the majority of these persons do not have access to healthcare. As an interim response to this healthcare crisis in the community, Crossroads Mobile Health Clinic, a faith-based medical service, provides once-monthly doctor visits to the community. Over almost three years, in more than twenty visits to Meadowview, the monthly clinic has treated over 400 persons, drawing from the immediate area as well as from a radius of over 75 miles. Through its work at the Meadowview site and at a site in Abingdon, Crossroads provides the only primary care available in Washington County to the uninsured. Ninety-eight percent of those persons receiving services at the Meadowview monthly clinic do not have heath insurance.
A sliding scale health clinic occupies the first floor. The Second floor of the center houses the offices of the Migrant Health Network and educational opportunities are to be offered by Highlands Educational Literacy Program and Mount Rogers Retional Adult Education Program.
There are meeting rooms and gathering places, including a large kitchen that is available for community events and social gatherings. The structure has been designed to recreate, as close as possible, the appearance of the old H.B. Maiden & Son building which previously occupied that site.
July 22, 2006 - GROUND IS BROKEN!
A community ground breaking ceremony was held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday July 22nd,
on the Meadowview Square. Construction is set to begin on a Health Clinic and Community Center Monday.
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The Meadowview Health Clinic will increase access to primary health care services for the uninsured and medically underserved. Central to this solution is the partnership with Southwest Virginia Health Systems, Inc. (SVCHS) to equip, staff, and administer a free and sliding scale health clinic. Prescription services will be provided through SVCHS’ partnerships with the indigent pharmaceutical drug programs and the 340-B Federal Drug Pricing Program. In addition to the Health Clinic, the facility will also house the offices of the Migrant Health Network, which works directly with Hispanic migrant farm workers and Hispanic day laborers in a nine-county region.
The citizens of Meadowview have spearheaded all of the actions taken to ensure that this facility becomes a reality. After identifying the need for a health clinic, the community has single-mindedly worked to establish it, including partnering with Crossroads Mobile Medical Mission to provide an interim response to the health care crisis. Citizens have agreed to take personal responsibility for a forty-year fixed-rate loan from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Program to insure that enough funding is available for this construction. The Board of Directors of Meadowview First also is committed to having Washington County hold a twenty-year lien on the building to ensure that it serve its intended purpose long into the future.
Persons wishing to make donations to the work of Meadowview First, Inc. may do so by mailing their gifts to:
Meadowview First, Inc.
Post Office Box 530
Meadowview, Virginia 24361
All gifts are tax deductible, to the extent allowed by law.
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