Speaking at an April 13 appreciation dinner, Philip A. Pizzo, dean of the Medical school, thanked faculty, community physician volunteers, and donors for their support of the Arbor Free Clinic, Menlo Park, and the Pacific Free Clinic, San Jose.

The two clinics recently have been placed under an umbrella nonprofit organization, Cardinal Free Clinics.

“These programs will continue to provide support and care for citizens without resources. Indeed a sad testament to reality is that free clinics may be the only source of medical care for members of our community. Accordingly, I am proud of our students, faculty, physician volunteers and donors who help to support this important program,” the dean said.

[Lars Osterberg, medical director of Arbor and a general internal medicine specialist, told the Palo Alto Weekly in April that the clinics operating without umbrella nonprofit management have struggled with fundraising and have had to cut some services for the approximately 2,000 underinsured and uninsured patients currently served at the two locations. The newspaper reported that the combined budgets of the weekend-only clinics are between $100,000 and $200,000 annually.]

—Courtesy Dean Philip A. Pizzo’s newsletter,
http://deansnewsletter.stanford.edu/archive/04_17_06.html