Most Holy Trinity Church's
Cabrini Clinic will continue to provide medical care to the uninsured in Corktown like it has since 1950 -- just in a whole lot nicer digs.
It is relocating from a wing of Trinity's grade school into the church's former convent. Executive director Sr. Mary Ellen Howard says that the organization outgrew its 2,000-square-foot home "years and years" ago. The new 3,325-square-foot facility has a lovely waiting room, six colorful exam rooms, sufficient storage and office space and handicap-accessible restrooms. The increase in size will also enable the clinic to grow the number of volunteers it can accommodate; currently it can only handle 100 and many get turned away.
Howard calls the new clinic a "Win, Win, Win" because it makes use of a vacant building, will improve the level of care that is provided to the community and will allow the school to expand into the wing previously occupied by the clinic.
Cabrini is the nation's oldest free health care clinic. It provides approximately 150 patients a
week with medical and mental health care, education and
prescription assistance. The $650,000 capital campaign for the necessary renovations to the new clinic, which is located at 1234 Porter, has been completed. Howard says that donations for ongoing operations, however, are always welcome.
Source: Sr. Mary Ellen Howard, Cabrini Clinic
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh
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