The Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic online!   The Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic The Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic was created by Community Health Partners in response to the growing number of uninsured  and medically underserved adult patients requiring urgent health care in the Cowlitz County region. We serve patients from Cowlitz County as well as neighboring communities. The clinic opened November 8th, 2005 and by April of 2009 we had seen over 3,601 visits by  patients to the Free Clinic.  The Free Clinic provides urgent care through a model that emphasizes patient empowerment, compassion and education. In addition to urgent health care services, the Clinic provides: behavioral resource specialists, referrals to primary and speciality physicians, laboratory and prescription services and access to Washington's Basic Health Insurance for qualified residents.  All services are offered in both Spanish & English and a telephone language line is available for other languages as needed. The Free Clinic is located at 1230 7th Avenue, Longview, WA and is open every Wednesday from 5:00pm - 9:00pm. No appointment is needed.   Directions   Call: 360-442-4165    Want to volunteer?!  Download our volunteer application    Want to donate?! Click here!             The Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic embraces the spirit of compassion and service as embodied by our professional health care volunteers.    Who Are The Uninsured? According to research done by the the Kaiser Family Foundation  In 2006, 46.5 million Americans under the age of 65 lacked health care insurance: 8 out of 10 people with no health insurance are working full or part-time, Nonelderly adults are more likely then children or elderly adults to be uninsured, 78% of the uninsured were born in the United States or are natualized citizens, Almost half of all uninsured adults have a chronic health care condition and have gone without health care for a year or more. Cowlitz County has:   an estimated 15,ooo (15.3%) of the adult population between the ages of 19-44 with no health insurance, been declared a medically underserved area by the U.S. Department of Health and Human

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