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- David Morin, CEO and Donald Nease Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer

This morning I had the great pleasure of listening to a presentation from Charissa Shawcross, NP, of Joy-Southfield Health and Education Center and David Law, PhD, of Joy-Southfield Community Development Corp. Both are deeply involved in a free clinic in Detroit and with free clinics, in general, in Southeast Michigan. What they presented is really scary. There are 47 million uninsured Americans, a number growing each day. In Detroit: 1 in 4 residents do NOT have health care there is 1 primary care provider for every 17,000 residents in Detroit sudden infant death rates are two times the national average and there's additional depressing statistics if you want them... The Joy-Southfield Health and Education Center (a free clinic on the west side of Detroit) simply cannot grow fast enough to keep up with demand. There is an 8 week waiting period for new patients (many free clinics in Detroit cannot take ANY new patients) and this only gets worse each month. The people I have met that support and work in free clinics are relentless, hard-working people that probably work over 70 hours each week to keep them running, funded and staffed. These people need to be recognized; they are providing an unmeasureable benefit to a population without a voice and in many ways ignored by our politicians. Running a free clinic isn't glamorous work, it's tough and probably quite stressful. But I see, in the eyes of these people, a passion and determination that is unselfish and laudable. The rest of us need to support their work and pay attention to the issues of the uninsured and underinsured because in the end we all end up paying for it in a lot of different ways. Dave Morin CEO Cielo MedSolutions