Clinica Esperanza is temporarily operating on Tuesday nights at ACOS (557 Broad Street). We do outreach (blood pressures, glucose and cholesterol checks) at Open Table of Christ, 1520 Broad, on Tuesdays (Carlos and Dr. Wing). We also do outreach at Iglesia Esperanza (5 Valley Street) in Olneyville on Saturday mornings (8 to 11).

We will likely add another clinic on Thursday night. Demand is high! We don’t have enough rooms (exam rooms) to see more patients on Tuesday than we are seeing now, which is about 5 follow ups and about 10 news (up to 30 if we are doing flu clinics). The folks at ACOS have been wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. We are grateful!

We plan to continue seeing approximately 10 new patients and 5 follow ups per clinic session. In addition to seeing patients at the clinic, we also see new patients at the Outreach clinics, where we provide blood pressure and health screens, and we identify people who have medical problems who need to be followed up at the clinics. The two outreach clinics serve a larger population -approximately 20 per session, or 40 per week. We do expect to reach our goal of more than 1000 individuals served our first year – and have already had significant success identifying people who need more significant care, who are referred to the hospital -based clinics for more tests and care.