Whitewater Community Foundation board members visited Rock River Free Clinic on Monday to meet another recipient of the foundation’s inaugural Community Action Grant program.
Foundation members Danielle Frawley, Dawn Hunter and David Yochum presented a check to Kristin Wallace for $2,500 to help defray drug costs for RRFC clients. Wallace is executive director at Rock River Free Clinic.
The clinic is a nonprofit 501(3)c led by a volunteer board of directors. It provides health care and education to community members in Whitewater, Jefferson County and Cambridge.
The clinic became a fulltime clinic with a fulltime physician and registered nurse in 2012 through its pursuit of strong partnerships with Fort Healthcare and Jefferson County.
“They provide profound quality of care for our low income and uninsured neighbors,” a release about the grant stated.
Healthy citizens make healthy communities, and more than 80 percent of the clinic’s clients need some sort of assistance with life-saving medications for chronic disease, such as diabetes.
“The Whitewater Community Foundation is honored to assist in helping area residents access these critical medications,” the release stated.
