A new medical clinic in southern Dallas County is helping to meet a need in the community.
"This area is definitely a medical desert," Society of St. Vincent de Paul CEO Luis Gonzalez said."The type of patient growth that we're seeing really just demonstrates that it's filling a critical need, because there are a lot of people in this area that just don't have access to medical care."partnered with Dr. Mayra Jimenez Thompson and her husband, Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, to open the low-cost community medical clinic near Lancaster's St. Vincent Center.
"We're finding people that have diseases we can prevent," Jimenez Thompson said."This is why they're dying at an earlier rate.""I haven't had insurance in a little while," Torres said."It's a little pricey for me right now.""When I came to this country as an immigrant, my parents paid cash, but it was still affordable," Jimenez Thompson said."Somehow we have evolved into a society that medical care is no longer affordable.
With the help of the St. Paul Medical Clinic, Torres is changing her diet and getting access to free prescriptions through the charitable pharmacy of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
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