The Greenville Free Medical Clinic in Greenville, South Carolina, promotes wellness by providing compassionate, quality medical, dental, and mental health care, health education, diagnostic testing, and prescription medications to eligible medically under-served Greenville County residents. The clinic was awarded a $50,000 grant by the CCME Foundation for its expansion project of three rural satellite free clinics in rural Greenville County. These clinics also provide comprehensive health care services to low-income, uninsured residents in Greenville County.  

The clinic’s current population includes approximately 40% Spanish speaking patients. With the expansion of services into the three rural areas in Greenville County, the clinic was able to add a bilingual Nurse Practitioner. Grant funding will allow the clinic to operate additional days per week to provide the same quality comprehensive services within these communities, otherwise unable to access quality health care.  

Since 2020, Greenville Free Medical Clinic has been one of 50 participants in the Roadmap to Health Equity National Free Clinic Quality Benchmarking Research Project. This national project gathers data on 15 quality measures and compares the clinic to all roadmap clinics in the country and in South Carolina, measuring such data as patient blood pressure control, HBA1C control, depression screening and follow-up, and breast cancer screening. The project has shown that the Greenville Free Medical Clinic is doing better and doing more – patients are doing as well as or better than the benchmarks for peer free clinics nationally and in South Carolina, the Medicaid HMO population, FQHC patients, and even the privately insured populations.   

Learn more about the work and impact of the Greenville Free Medical Clinic.