University Medical Center to provide medical services to 3,500 in Wise, Va.
On Friday July 28 at 6 a.m. the 7th annual Remote Area Medical clinic will open at the Virginia-Kentucky Fairground in Wise, Va. Home to the University of Virginia's College at Wise. University Medical Center doctors, nurses, lab technicians and other personnel will be on hand for three days to provide medical services to what is estimated to be over 3,500.
While the clinic is in its seventh year, this is the sixth time that University medical personnel have been involved.
University assistant medical professor Claudette Dalton heard about the program seven years ago. She said she went back to the Medical Center and asked them for guidance.
"I was willing to do the work if they were willing to give me clearance to do it."
Since then, the program has grown and expanded to provide a variety of services, according to Dalton.
The clinic will bring urologists, gynecologists, endocrinologists, audiologists, dentists, and a variety of other doctors to the area.
Dalton does not look at her work as charity, but rather as a way to assist the doctors at Wise who she said are doing a really good job.
"These folks don't need handouts," she said. "They work hard for what they have. This is not charity care. We prefer to think of it as a safety net."
-- compiled by Maria Tchijov
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