Volunteers in Medicine Clinic<\/a> (VIM) in Stuart shared with WPTV at a recent Let’s Hear It about the important services they provide for the Treasure Coast community \u2014 free of charge.<\/p>\nStuart clinic provides free health care for Treasure Coast residents<\/p>\n
“We often see people when there’s already a problem because they’ve gone without,” Kim Ouellette, case manager at VIM Clinic, said. <\/p>\n
The free clinic off Balboa Avenue in Stuart is celebrating 30 years of helping the uninsured receive proper health care. <\/p>\n
Ouellette told WPTV anchor Ashley Glass that the clinic’s goal is to see more patients while they’re in good health so they can better track long-term care. <\/p>\n
“It’s important for us to meet people when they’re still healthy so we can do annual screenings and we can check their blood work,” Ouellette said. <\/p>\n
The clinic does not serve people on a walk-in basis. You have to be an established patient and meet certain eligibility requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. \u2014 Listening is what it’s all about at WPTV’s Let’s Hear It community meet-ups. Volunteers in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[33103,28,12400,1160,171,173,172,179,33966,12758],"class_list":["post-54328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-ashley-glass","tag-florida","tag-lets-hear-it","tag-martin-county","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-treasure-coast","tag-volunteers-in-medicine-clinic","tag-wptv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}