| Lease signed for Hackensack clinic to serve the poor |
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| Friday, 04 April 2008 | |
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BY LINDY WASHBURN A group of volunteer doctors and other health-care professionals moved closer Thursday to opening a clinic for the poor and uninsured of Bergen County. The Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative Inc. hopes to begin treating patients in early 2009 at a rented space in downtown Hackensack. The group signed a lease with the Bergen County Community Action Partnership Inc., whose first-floor space it will be renting, at a ceremony Thursday. Its services will be offered to Bergen County residents without health insurance whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, or $42,400 annually for a family of four. About 20,000 people are estimated to be eligible, not counting those who are seen at hospital outpatient clinics or at a federally subsidized health center on Midland Avenue in Garfield, Weinstein said. READ MORE: http://www.northjersey.com/news/health/17287009.html
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