Shepherding the Uninsured
Family practitioner Thomas Pineo, DO, volunteers with the Good Shepherd Center in Greenville. The Center’s free weekly medical clinic serves local residents who have jobs that do not offer insurance, and who don’t earn enough to buy it themselves, nor do they qualify for Medical Assistance.
The Center also runs a thrift shop and a food pantry to help with operating expenses.
“I recently diagnosed a patient with insulin requiring diabetes who sees me monthly at the free clinic. Without this free care, he may have had to quit his job in order to meet the financial criteria for MA. This is an all-too-common dilemma faced by the poor in health care today: work without health benefits or not work and qualify for medical assistance.”
Last Updated: 12/8/2009