At Clinic, Poverty Magnifies Health Problems

(By – Lauren Burns, Capital News Service, via Kaiser Health News)

Rhonda Jones began seeing doctors at a Total Health Care clinic in West Baltimore in the 1970s, when she was pregnant.

Now 58, with a stroke added to her life’s medical record, she still goes there. Public transportation brings her to appointments and she walks into the clinic with a cane.

“Even if you don’t have insurance they’ll help you,” Jones said as she stood outside the Division Street location recently, wrapped in a light jacket. “One of the best community clinics in the city.”

In Baltimore’s poorer neighborhoods, where problems are plentiful and solutions scarce, Total Health Care strives to correct disparities in access and treatment long faced by people who struggle to get by. Read more…

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