Common Ground Health Clinic

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The Common Ground Health Clinic is a non-profit organization that provides free quality health care for the greater New Orleans community, and develops and provides programs to address community health care needs through collaborative partnerships.

Common Ground Health Clinic had its beginnings when four young street medics, showed up in Algiers a few days after the hurricane. They began riding around on bicycles asking residents if they needed medical attention. Locals were apparently surprised to be approached in this way, since no representatives of government agencies or of the Red Cross had appeared up to that point. The medics offered first aid, took blood pressure, tested for diabetes, and asked about symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other disease.^[1]

[edit] Current

Antor Ndep Ola is currently the Executive Director of Common Ground Health Clinic.

[edit] External links

• Common Ground Health Clinic

[edit] References

1. ^ Shorrock, Tim. "The Street Samaritans", Mother Jones, March/April 2006. Retrieved on 2006-04-25.