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Regional Briefs: Med students opening a free midweek clinic
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Published: September 12, 2008
Students from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine will operate a medical clinic Wednesday nights at the Community Care Center on New Walkertown Road.
The clinic is called the DEAC Clinic, short for Delivering Equal Access to Care. It will provide services similar to a general practice. Appointments will be available.
It will be free to any patient who is not eligible for Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and whose income falls below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
The clinic will be open from 6 to 9 p.m., beginning Wednesday. About 20 medical students will staff the clinic, along with up to three supervisors drawn from faculty members, alumni or community physicians at the clinic.
The clinic, which will cost about $15,000 a year to run, has received a $30,000 grant over four years from the Association of American Medical Colleges, according to the medical school. It also will get a $2,000 grant from an American Medical Association fund. The students have applied for membership in the N.C. Association of Free Clinics, which would grant them $15,000 a year.
The center got $270,000 from Forsyth Medical Center in April. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center gave the center $270,000 in 2007.
Hagan to preside at town hall at VFW post on South Main
Kay Hagan, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Republican Elizabeth Dole, will come to Winston-Salem on Saturday.
She will stop at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1134 at 4129 S. Main St.
Hagan will hold the seventh Veterans Town Hall, with former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., as a special guest. Cleland is a veteran of the Vietnam War.
The session will begin at 10:30 a.m. and is open to the public.
License-plate agency to open Tuesday in Sparta, state says
RALEIGH -- A new license-plate agency is scheduled to open Tuesday in Sparta, state transportation officials say.
The office, at 1433 U.S. 21, will offer full vehicle-registration and titling services, license plates and registration stickers. Hours will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The telephone number is 336-372-8247.
6 arrested after fight that police say was gang-related
RALEIGH -- Authorities have arrested six people after a gang-related fight broke out at a Raleigh high school.
Jim Sughrue, a spokesman for the Raleigh Police Department, said yesterday that about 30 students were involved in the incident at Enloe High School by either fighting or encouraging others to fight. No injuries have been reported.
Sughrue said that the six arrested suspects were taken to the Wake County Jail.
The incident remains under investigation, and it is unclear how authorities concluded that the fight was gang-related.
WE WERE WRONG
■ A brief news item yesterday incorrectly said that 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was killed in 1966. She was killed in 1996.
■ The wrong address was listed in the Business Milestones column on Aug. 31 for the Jan Secor School of Real Estate's new location in Winston-Salem. It is at 1520 Martin St., Suite 205, off Silas Creek Parkway.
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