Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured

The Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured provides quality, ongoing, and free primary health care to the medically uninsured population in the city of Milwaukee.  The Saturday Clinic is unique to other clinics because medical students are in charge of day-to-day operations in addition to patient care and education. 

The Saturday Clinic principally serves the African-American community.  The patients who utilize the walk-in clinic suffer from a wide variety of illnesses.

Services Provided & Patient Population:

We see patients who attest to the fact that they have NO insurance coverage.  Unfortunately, we cannot see patients who have partial coverage, including Medicare, Medicaid, BadgerCare, GAMP, or Title 19 insurance.

We do not provide services for children.

We do not provide prenatal care.

We can provide interpreter services in some instance, so language barriers can be worked around in many circumstances.  We use translator services from Columbia St. Mary's and it often take many hours for them to come in. 

We provide basic primary care to many of our patients.  We manage chronic conditions that would be managed in a general practioner's office as well as as acute illness.  Examples of services we can provide include:

• Routine health maintenance physicals including Pap Smears
• Acute illness assessment/treatment
• Follow-up care for injuries and accidents
• Management of chronic health conditions
• Routine laboratory work
• Random glucose (immediate finger stick)
• STD screening, including HIV testing
• EKGs
• Biopsies (on a limited basis, depending upon physician comfort)
• limited referrals
• prescription refills,
• labs, x-rays and employment-requested physicals.

Location:

The clinic is located at 1121 E. North Avenue, at the corner of North Avenue and Humboldt.  There is street parking and a lot adjacent to the building.  Directions

Hours:

The Saturday Clinic is open from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.  We encourage patients to arrive early as we can accommodate a limited number of patients depending on physicians available.

The clinic, which is open fifty weeks a year, regularly sees 15 to 25 patients per Saturday on a first come, first serve basis.  It is not unusual for patients to wait outside the clinic starting earlier than 7:00 in the morning to ensure that they are seen. 

Clinic Phone:

(414) 588-2865

Additional Clinic Information:

Medication Payment Policy

Additional Non-MCW Affiliated Health Resources:

Additional Milwaukee Free Clinics	Additional Milwaukee Medical Clinics
Children Clinics	Dental Resources
Immunization Clinic Schedule	Mental Health Resources
STD Resources	TB Clinics
Vision Resources	Mammograms & Women Health Services

2008-2009 Saturday Clinic Mangers:

Zubair Ahmed	Mallory O'Niel
Lesley Delgado	Shivangi Pandya
Amie Ecker	Annoop Patel
Tiama Friend	Sharon Rikin
Tara Kersten	Angela Schnell
Renee LaPlante	Shivani Tripathi

2009-2010 Saturday Clinic Mangers:

Aran Balachandran	Aarti Bhatt
Anna Conterato	Katherine Gavin
Randal Harris	Lauren Lietzau
Brian Nickel	Steven Pirog
Jamie Schmidt	Elisabeth Sederberg
Nora Shumway	Michael Toce

Awards:

• 2007 Humanitarian in Medicine Award from the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine

Partners:

• Center for Healthy Communities, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Columbia St. Mary's Hospital and Family Health Center

Funding Source:

• Keenan Foundation
• Bostik Findley, Inc.
• Catholic Community Foundation