A Model for Treating the Uninsured Sound Medicine recently spoke with Jack VandenHengel and Dr. Lisa Keamy on providing care to the uninsured without government funding. Listen to the segment on their website: A Model for Treating the Uninsured aired January 29th, 2011
Citypaper named Shepherd's Clinic Best Health Care Provider for 2011! Check it out: Whatever the court outcome of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there are people right here in Baltimore closing the gap between insured and uninsured. Thousands of people in Baltimore who cannot afford private insurance yet make too much money to qualify for state assistance take advantage of Shepherd Clinic’s services. In 2010, it had 5,078 patient visits. That’s 1,101 more visits than in 2000, and 4,228 more visits than when the clinic was founded in 1991, and a continuing rough economy figures its numbers will rise. If you fit the criteria—and we know there are many artists, musicians, underemployed, and struggling one-parent households out there who do—an office visit will set you back the cost of one hour’s wage (or $9 if you’re unemployed). The respected clinic is staffed by more than 250 doctors, nurses, and ...
Our Clinic's Jack VandenHengel and Dr. Melissa DeLong spoke with Dan Rodricks this March on WYPR. Listen in as both Shepherd's Clinic and Charm City Clinic talk about offered services and finding health care without coverage. Midday with Dan Rodricks Hour 2: Baltimore's Community Clinics March 22nd, 2011
Making a Difference Medstar Health Community Benefit Report 2008, March 3rd, 2009 Shepherd’s Clinic, a healthcare clinic for Baltimore residents without health insurance, had been open for about two whole days in the early summer of 1991 when a phone call came in from the wife of Dr.William H.M. Finney, who had recently retired as head of neurosurgery at Union Memorial Hospital. “June Finney called and said Bill was driving her crazy at home,” recalls Jack VandenHengel, one of the clinic’s founders. “She asked, ‘Do you have anything for him to do?’” Well, yes, came the answer, and thus Dr. Finney became Shepherd’s Clinic’s first medical director. One of his first actions was to persuade other doctors at Union Memorial to volunteer. “And that,” says Mr. VandenHengel, “is how it all started." “It” is Union Memorial’s longstanding partnership with Shepherd’s Clinic. The connection between the two actually started a couple of years earlier, when ...
Through their volunteer efforts at a Baltimore clinic for the working poor, two Hopkins physicians are taking a holistic approach to better health. Linell Smith Hopkins Medicine Magazine, February 5th, 2009 AT THE OPENING OF THE JOY WELLNESS CENTER, Annie Umbricht wears the slightly dazed smile of someone who’s living a moment long imagined. The Hopkins internist admires the large bright studio for yoga, tai chi, and other movement therapies, then peeks into an intimate space designed for meditation. This is the latest dimension of health care she has helped provide at the Shepherd’s Clinic, a primary care clinic for the uninsured “working poor” in the Homestead-Montebello area of northeast Baltimore. An addictions medicine specialist at Johns Hopkins Bayview, Umbricht has volunteered at this clinic since 2002. Typically, she sees people with such chronic conditions as obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. “All of these disorders cause, and are exacerbated by, stressors, such as those ...