As a health care provider at the Urban Clinic of Atlanta, a nonprofit organization that works to provide free medical services to uninsured and low income residents in Fulton County, Megan Boissonneault is no stranger to how access to care can change people’s lives for the better.
“I’m thinking of a patient who I have seen regularly, who has gone through a very long health care journey and eventually got the end care that she needed, which was a big surgery,” said Boissonneault. “One of the things she has noticed is now she can be a mom to her children without having this distraction of suffering from her disease.”
The organization offers primary care services like management of chronic and acute illnesses, screenings and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, lab services, and more. According to staff at the clinic, 80% of the patients they serve are Black and 70% are female…