Healing Bridge Clinic

The Healing Bridge Clinic began as an American nurse’s dream. This wasn’t any typical nurse, but one that worked tirelessly to provide lifesaving healthcare to the poor. She dedicated herself to mission projects in Africa and America, empowering the powerless through medicine and prevention classes. Her name is Ruth McCommon, and like other stakeholders during and after her tenure, they are visionary leaders with a servant leadership mindset.

Who We Provide For

Healing Bridge Clinic is a faith-based free clinic that provides primary health care to the uninsured residents of Fayette, Coweta & South Fulton counties who are within the 200% Federal Poverty Income Level Guidelines.   According to these guidelines for 2019, this means that a family of four who makes an annual income under $51,500 can find free medical care at the clinic to help them out. Many families in our community fall into this category. Whether it’s due to the recent loss of a job or for those families that must work multiple part-time jobs that offer no health insurance, Healing Bridge Clinic is here to provide medical care to these families in order to keep them healthy so that they can continue to provide for their families. The Healing Bridge Clinic provides non-emergency medical care in the form of clinics where doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals volunteer their services to patients. 

What We Provide

The Healing Bridge Clinic’s mission is to care for the residents of Fayette and surrounding counties providing free health care to those who would otherwise be unable to afford these medical services

The Healing Bridge Clinic exists to meet the health, spiritual, and emotional needs of our community. This is done in the form of weekly clinics where compassionate healthcare professionals from our own community volunteer their services on a regular basis. 

In addition to family medicine, the clinic is also able to provide services in many specialties such as: Dermatology, Women’s Health, Orthopedics, Cardiology, Mental Health Counseling, Chiropractic Care, and even Physical Therapy.  

Where We’re Headed

The clinic continues to expand its services, as well as, its needs in order to meet the demands of our community.   By the end of this year, the clinic will have provided care for well over 1,000 patient visits and almost $900,000 worth of medical services, including free medications. This is only possible due to our amazing partners and our compassionate volunteers who, by the end of this year, will have culminated almost 10,000 hours of volunteer work.  

Why Community Clinics are Important

Community clinics help to serve the uninsured population that otherwise would not have access to the same standard of medical care and preventive services that are available to the insured population. This is likely to lead to delays in disease diagnosis that ultimately leads to poor health outcomes, as well as, higher healthcare costs. Most uninsured patients either choose to not seek medical care or end up at the emergency department. Free clinics lessen the burden placed on our emergency departments, while still providing quality care to those who need it most.

Healing Bridge Clinic will continue to be the “bridge” for our neighbors who are caught in the healthcare gap as well as alleviating the strain placed on our local hospitals.  

Why Healing Bridge Clinic Needs Your Help

 The Healing Bridge Clinic is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization that survives on charitable contributions and a large part of those are from the extremely compassionate donors.  As a member of the GA Charitable Care Network, Healing Bridge Clinic is able to provide $10 of medical care for every $1 donated.  When you give to our clinic, you are playing an active role in bettering the lives of all of those in our community.

To say that Ruth McCommon knew what she was doing by choosing Peachtree City as the home of Healing Bridge Clinic is the understatement of the century.

To learn more about Healing Bridge Clinic, please click here. https://healingbridgeclinic.org/

If you are interested in volunteering, please click here.

If you are interested in donating*, please click here. 

*Donations to the clinic are tax-deductible. HBC's Tax ID# is: 26-3555799