Status
Closed
Closing Date
September 2012
Location
San Antonio, Texas
QEI
$4.9M ($9M Project)
Description of QALICB
Eastside Clinic is located in a highly distressed area in San Antonio, TX. It is a standalone health clinic that provides healthcare and apprenticeship programs for a nearby minority school in an LIC. The Eastside Eye Clinic is a 30,000 square foot building with a staff of 24 attending providers, 78 clinical interns and 35 full examination rooms. Charges for clinical care are based on a financial need sliding scale that would provide free and/or significantly reduced cost eye care for the residents of the local community.
Community Benefits
Besides offering first class and extensive eye care at a reduced cost for local residents, the clinic provides incredible community benefits. The clinic participates in community health fairs, is a community vision educational resource, provides optometric continuing education, provides daily school screenings by providers and clinical students (5,000 children per year), has a nursing home/assisted living on-site eye-care services, and is a critical source of knowledge for eye-care in the greater San Antonio area.