Bringing Community Together to Improve Access to Healthcare
Named "One of the Best Nonprofits" by Spur Local, Culmore Clinic is a nonprofit healthcare clinic offering free, compassionate,culturally-sensitive medical care, counseling, and specialty referrals to uninsured adults in the Falls Church, VA area.
The Need
Access to healthcare continues to be a crisis for many of our neighbors in Northern Virginia. Over half of Bailey’s Crossroads residents are uninsured. Barriers to accessing medical care are legion. Affordability, language, and documentation are just a few examples. Dedicated individuals and congregations thought something should be done. In 2007, they opened Culmore Clinic.
News & Events
Culmore Clinic’s New Look Revealed!
Over the last month, Culmore Clinic has been undergoing a visual transformation. Thanks to our partners at The Oasis Alliance, we have been updating the look of the Clinic with trauma-informed design in mind. New paint, a mural, new furniture, new lighting and even new sinks have been installed. All the work has been done over weekends so it would not disrupt patient flow. The team, which includes several of our faithful Culmore Clinic volunteers, has done an amazing job. Our staff and patients agree it's "zen."
Volunteer Spotlight: Luz Oriana Ortiz Henríquez
Meet Luz Oriana Ortiz Henríquez, a dedicated volunteer Interpreter and Medical Assistant who joined our team about six months ago. When she learned about the health disparities and lack of affordable healthcare in this country she Googled ways to give back. And sure enough, Culmore Clinic popped up! We had a second to catch up with Luz to learn more about how she’s finding hope and joy through her volunteerism at Culmore Clinic.
Why I Chose Culmore Clinic!
One of our wonderful volunteers, Debbie Kirzane, brought us some heartwarming news this month. Her grandchildren, Jeremiah (10), and Esther (8), were inspired by their grandma to make a donation to Culmore Clinic. Read the letters that arrived with the donation on our blog now.
Our Services
Culmore Clinic provides basic medical services, diagnostic testing, health counseling, mental health services and specialty care three days a week, to adults in the Bailey’s Crossroads, VA community. The Clinic works directly to alleviate health disparities, offering low-cost services to patients who would not otherwise have access to any kind of medical care. Learn more about how to become a patient or how to refer a patient to us.
