Welcome to the Clinic Information page!                            Hopefully everything you need to know and more!

 

FernCare Free Clinic, Inc. operates a free medical clinic located at 459 E. Nine Mile in Ferndale, MI 48220 (corner of E. Nine Mile and Paxton).

 

 Appointments and Information               248-677-2273

 This is an appointment ONLY clinic.

 All calls are returned within 24 hours.

 The Appointment Desk has many, many resources including other free medical clinic and sliding scale medical clinic information.

 Please also refer to the resources that are at a separate web page on this site.

We are NOT adding prospective patients to our wait list because the list is so long.  Please, though, call our Appointment Line because we have a lot of free clinic resources that may be helpful.  

 

 Clinic  Schedule and Hours

 At present, we are open the first and third Saturdays of every month, 9 am to noon EXCEPT next August and September, 2012.  August dates will be 11 and 25 (2nd and 4th Saturdays) to avoid DreamCruise parking issues and September will be the 8th and 22nd (2nd and 4th Saturdays) to avoid Labor Day and the Ferndale DIY/ART FAIRS parking issues.

PLEASE NOTE we can change or add clinic hours.  ANY change will be noted on this website page as well as on the home page of the website.

 

 

(1) patients must be between the ages of 19 through 64

(2) have NO insurance of any kind: no public health assistance federal or state supplied (VA, Mediciad, Medicare, etc.)

        or/and NO private insurance of any kind including catastrophic or policies that include everything except office visits

(3) patients are required to sign a Patient Contract as well as fill out a  Health History and Information forms.

(4) patients must have a photo ID.

 

All of the medical staff volunteering for the clinic are licensed or certified as required by the State of Michigan.

Patients are seen by a practitioner (physician, Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant).

All lab work is done at the clinic with the results available to the patients in about 6 - 10 days.

The clinic dispenses generic medications.

A benefits counselor is available to help patients locate services and medications we do not provide.

A social worker is available upon request.

 

We do not handle any sexually transmitted disease issues.  This service is free at the Oakland County Health locations.

We do not do any obstetric work.  Our physicians are volunteers and we cannot guarantee that the same medical staff would be able to follow a prognancy from diagnosis to birth.

We do not do any emergency care.  We refer callers and patients to a clinic/hospital with that capability.

We do not do any mental health care that is beyond what a family practice/general care practitioner is comfortable with.

 

 

Please fill out the Volunteer application (separate webpage) and e-mail it with a copy of your license to  the clinic. SEE addressess below.

We ask that medical staff volunteers wear either scrubs or a lab coat.

All staff are required to sign in and wear identification (we provide).  Medical/health care staff are asked to wear either a scrubs or a lab coat.

Coni Schmidt is out Clinic Manager and can answer any questions regarding clinic operations cschmidt@ferncare.org.

 All volunteers are subject to Medical Director and Clinic Manager approval.

 

 (1) Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, student nurses, CNAs, Medical Assistants, EMTs - e-mail your information to dengate436@aol.com. She is our Head Nurse and can answer any questions you may have.

 

(2) Pharmacists, pharmacist technicians, pharmacy students, e-mail your applications and a copy of your license/certification to crainey@ferncare.org.  Christine is our Pharmacy Manager and can answer any questions.

 

(3) Lab technicians and phlebotimists, e-mail your applicaitons and a copy of your license/certification to hnovack@med.wayne.edu.

Holly is our Lab Manager and can answer any question.

 

(4) All non medical volunteers - please e-mail your application to cschmidt@ferncare.org.  Coni can answer any questions about any aspect of the the clinic.