The FernCare Free Clinic Board of Directors is working to set up a free medical, dental and mental health clinic for the citizens of Ferndale, Hazel Park and surrounding communities.

The clinic will treat persons from 18 through 64 years of age. It will provide maintenance care of chronic illness, do checkups, diagnose and treat acute day-to-day illness, dispense generic medications, and make specialist referrals including dental care. STDs will be referred to the county health department. The pharmacy will not stock any controlled or psychotropic drugs or narcotics of any sort.

BUT we can’t hope to offer this needed service without volunteers. All free clinics are staffed by people who volunteer. There are state and Federal government legal protections for medical staff that volunteer.

The clinic we envision would probably be open once or twice a week to start - a few hours two evening a week, one night for the medical clinic, one night for the mental health clinic.

We would like to put together 4 teams of medical staff……..each team only working one day every four weeks.

We are looking for

• 2 physicians,
• 4 registered nurses,
• 4 nurse practitioners,
• a person to be the clinic manager (eventually this will be a paid position) ideally a nurse practitioner,
• 3 pharmacists,
• 4 psychiatrists,
• 8 therapists to work in concert with the psychiatrist,
• 4 dentists who will take our referrals for free care,
• 3 receptionists,
• 4 people experienced with medical “paperwork”,
• 3 medical social workers with experience in community referrals and state paperwork (Medicaid, MI Child, etc.)

If you are interested in volunteering please complete the form listed below and email it to jwillcock@ferncare.org.  You can also mail completed forms to 445 W. Woodruff, Hazel Park, MI  48030.  All clinic volunteers must complete a application. If you have questions about volunteering, please e-mail aheler@ferncare.org.