BIFMC is a non-profit 501(c) organization with the mission to provide free health care to uninsured adults across Charleston, Dorchester and Berkeley counties
3226 Maybank Highway, Building C
Johns Island, SC
29455
| Monday | 9am - 9pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 4pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 4pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 4pm |
| Friday | 9am - 4pm |
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If you eat in local restaurants, employ a housekeeper or caretaker, hire lawn service, play golf, or eat local produce: you probably have been served by Barrier Islanders and Downtown Charleston Hospitality workers who have no health insurance – and who are likely our patients at Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic.
We are Free Medical Clinic who believes everyone deservers the dignity of health care. Those who are treated at our Clinic are primarily those who live or work across the Barrier Islands who do not have access to health insurance - and cannot afford it alone. By implementing the Free Clinic Model of low-cost, volunteer-driven medical care, we are creating healthier workers and a healthier community and economy. These health benefits lessen the degree of financial insecurity experienced by those who live at the poverty level throughout Charleston, decreasing both household medical debit and unfunded emergency medical bills garnered by area hospitals.
The Affordable Healthcare Act has achieved coverage for many, but not for all; particularly in a state that did not expand medicaid under the ACA. Those on the fringes of the U.S. economy are often hit hardest during times of economic decline. Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic is committed to serving the impoverished as primary care medical home. Through your donation, we are able to provide high quality, on-going medical care to those who work but are not afforded benefits; those who have recently lost a job and no longer have health insurance, and those who simply cannot afford medical coverage.
Too often, the sickest, uninsured patients are forced to seek their primary care in the emergency room (ER). The 2010 cost of unfunded ER visits for primary care at Roper Saint Francis’ four sites was $8,300,000, and at MUSC was $2,700,000. The 2010 average cost of a primary care visit in a South Carolina ER was $2,048. Conversely, The Clinic cost to provide a primary care visit is an average of $100. We posit that unfunded primary care visits should occur in our Clinic, rather than the emergency room. For every $1 donated to our clinic, we can provide $8 in medical care - every amount matters, and every volunteer and medical partnership enhances our commitment and care to the lowcountry community.
