WASATCH HOMELESS HEALTH CARE INC
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Mission Statement
Fourth Street Clinic helps individuals experiencing homelessness improve their health and quality of life by providing high quality integrated health care.
About This Cause
Homelessness is often the result of a downward spiral that begins with a person's health problem and escalates into unemployment, financial, and housing problems. Without homes people experience illnesses and injuries at three to six times the rates of housed individuals and die an average of 30 years earlier . Fourth Street Clinic works to break this cycle regardless of ability to pay. Health insurance is accepted, but not required and because all patients fall below 200% of poverty, the Fourth Street Clinic sliding fee scale doesn’t assess charges for services. Fourth Street Clinic was founded in 1988 as a triage clinic staffed with one, part-time nurse who relied heavily on hospitals for patient treatments. Today it has an operational budget of $15 million, a staff of 100 that deliver comprehensive health care to over 5,400 men, women and children in more than 24,000 primary care, behavioral health, dental services and specialty care visits. In addition, Fourth Street Pharmacy dispenses over 60,000 prescriptions annually. By increasing homeless Utahns’ access to primary care, Fourth Street Clinic is a major partner in ending homelessness and intergenerational poverty, promoting community health, and achieving across-the-board health care savings. The clinic is located in census tract C.T. 1024.00, which carries a medically underserved population (MUP) designation for primary care to individuals who are included in the Federal Government’s Low to Moderate Income category. Fourth Street Clinic, in its commitment to eradicating homelessness, also assists in the training of students from multiple state-wide medical education institutions. These medical, dental, and pharmacy students often report a newly-discovered interest in community health centers and the unique populations these centers serve.