There are 45 million Americans who have little or no access to health care, and the number is growing at a rate of one million people per year. The medically under-served are scattered around the United States in every city, town, and village. If you look around, it's not difficult to find them. They are our neighbors. Their lack of basic health care is not just a problem for them, but for all of us. No community can be truly healthy if a significant portion of the population is excluded from basic health care services. In the absence of a national health policy that includes health care for everyone, concerned citizens need to find other ways to provide the medically under-served with the health care services they need.

Mission

The Volunteers in Medicine Jacksonville Clinic is a volunteer run medical clinic that provides primary medical services to the working uninsured of Greater Jacksonville. Operations are funded through private and corporate donations, grants, and on-going fundraising. We have created a compassionate and nurturing environment for patients, volunteers, and staff that is based on our philosophy that (1) healing does not begin with a pill or therapy, but when you greet someone at the door, invite them in, take an interest in their lives, and give them the dignity and respect they often get no where else, and (2) the greatest healing does not go to the patients that come to receive care, but to the volunteers that go to the VIM-Jax Clinic to give care.

Vision

May we have eyes to see those rendered invisible and excluded; open arms and hearts to reach out and include them; healing hands to touch their lives with love, and, in the process, heal ourselves.