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Donna Jadot, office manager for the Moss Free Clinic, |
BY JIM HALL
The staff at the Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic put out a call for help this week.
The clinic workers have surplus furniture that they would like to donate to a free clinic in New Orleans, but no way to get it there.
The Moss Clinic in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Presbyterian Church have adopted the St. Peter Claver Free Clinic in downtown New Orleans. The two organizations have donated medicines and supplies to St. Peter ever since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.
Donna Jadot, an eligibility worker at Moss, said she makes monthly shipments of extra medicines to St. Peter.
"We have not only sent them supplies but have helped them establish some of the forms they use and given them advice on how to order medications," Jadot said.
Now the Moss workers would like to give St. Peter the equipment that they did not move to the new Moss clinic. The clinic opened in a new building this week near Mary Washington Hospital.
St. Peter has some expansion plans of its own.
"They are getting ready to open a mental health facility and could use everything we have left," Jadot said.
The equipment includes waiting-room furniture, exam tables, lab equipment, shelving, office chairs and chart racks.
Jadot estimates that the equipment will fill a "very large" truck. The clinic staff considered renting a truck but found that it would cost about $1,800 plus gas.
The clinic has until May 31 to remove the surplus furniture from its former home on Hunter Street.
For more information or to help, contact Jadot at 540/741-3702.
JIM HALL: 540/374-5433