When you walk into the Fishing Point Healthcare Clinic in Portsmouth, you may feel like you’re walking into any other doctor’s office.
“We are definitely not like any other doctor’s office that you would go to,” said Nurse Practitioner Sherry Johnson.
Johnson will be working at the clinic and help provide the variety of services offered.
The clinic was created by the Nansemond Tribe in Suffolk to serve the indigenous community and people who often have a hard time finding care, like people on Medicaid and the uninsured.
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It will be managed by a business, Fishing Point Healthcare , created by the tribe.
“The whole point of our clinic, and everybody in health care hopefully, is to bring about health equality,” Johnson explained.
There was still some work to be done as of Feb. 12 to finish the clinic, but in the meantime, the facility could begin seeing patients.
Johnson estimates hundreds of patients could be seen each day once all the work is done.