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Volume XXXXI. Number 3
Wednesday • January 19, 2011
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Committed to Cultural Diversity
Doing
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Others
Martin Luther
King Jr. example;
doctors, nurses
give back
C ari E. H achmann
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M ark W ashington / the P ortland O bserver
Dr. Jill Ginsberg sees patients and helps run the free community health clinic North by Northeast at 3030 N.E.
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Ginsberg along with other volunteer physicians, nurse-practitioners and staff give
up hours each week from their regular day jobs to work at the clinic at night at no cost for patients in need.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed, “Life’s most
persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing
for others?”
In the spirit of giving back to the community and
taking action for social justice, the volunteer physicians
and staff at the North by Northeast Community Health
Center are offering not just a day of service, but as a
collective, an entire year’s worth.
Two-dozen doctors, along with several nurse-practi-
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Free Medical for Hard Times
Clinic opens doors
to flux of uninsured
C ari H atchmann
T he P ortland O bserver
by
D espite the sw irling debate around m edical health
care, there is one sure bet for the uninsured in parts
of north and northeast Portland; free m edical ser
vices offered through the North by N ortheast C om
m unity H ealth Center.
W ith the recession still lingering, individuals and
fam ilies w ithout health insurance are w alking in
greater num bers through the doors of the com m u
nity clinic at 3030 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.,
with most patients seeking chronic disease m anage
ment, prim arily for diabetes and hypertension.
“We are definitely seeing more people who are
saying that they have lost their jo b and health
insurance,” says Dr. Jill G insberg, a co-founder and
medical director of the health center which has
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We are definitely seeing more people who are saying
that they have lost their job and health insurance.
- Dr. Jill Ginsberg, a co-founder and medical director of North by Northeast Community Health Center