Welcome!

We are Clara’s House!

Our MissionClara’s House addresses the health needs of the poor as a manifestation of the spiritual beliefs of the participants cherishing diversity of cultures and religious beliefs.

Vision

The clinic provides primary health care and education for those economically disadvantaged among us.  Nurse Practitioners operate the clinic in collaboration with volunteer MDs, NPs, RNs, and other health care professionals. They further extend care to those who do not have access to health care and are not aware of appropriate resources. The clinic staff works in coordination with existing services in the community and seeks to promote health maintenance through education, assessment and preventative health care. The staff coordinates ongoing care with professionals, agencies, schools, families, and  the larger community.

A primary care clinic providing comprehensive health care

Clara’s House is:• An all-volunteer, unpaid

staff

• Does not charge patients fees for medical services

• Asks partner agencies who refer patients to provide community support

Our PartnersAdult Education Program at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church • Roble School District • Francis House • Saint Joseph Church • Saint Ignatius Loyola Parish • Saint Vincent de Paul at OLA • Immaculate Conception Church • Cristo Rey High School, Sacramento •

Cathedral Square Program • AllHallows/St. Peter • Our Lady of Lourdes Parrish • Trinity Cathedral • Annunciation Church and Bookstore • Wellspring Women’s Center

New Process• MOU agreements

renewable yearly

• New referral process online (Fax cutoff 5/1/2011)

• Notification to partner of acceptance or non-acceptance of referral

Primary health care

is: Not urgent care: flu symptoms, asthma

attack, UTI

Not emergency room care: heart attack,

broken bones, stroke

Not specialty medical care: surgery, cardiac,

psychiatric care, x-ray

Our Stories:Compassion

“Compassion brings us to a

stop, and for a moment we rise

above ourselves.”

Mason Cooley

Our Stories:: Uninsured

“Compassion is not a popular virtue.”

Karen Armstrong

Our Stories: Care Beyond Reach

“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”

Dalai Lama

Our Stories: Homeless

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. “

Dalai Lama

I am not interested in

picking up crumbs of

compassion thrown from the

table of someone who

considers himself my

master. I want the full menu of

rights.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

Partners

WithUs

“For it is in giving that we receive . . .”

Saint Francis of Assisi

Corporate Donors: • Sisters of St. Francis• Kaiser-Permanente Foundation• CHW Mercy General Hospital• CHW Foundation• St. Vincent de Paul Society•Soroptimists of Greater Sacramento• Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur• Sierra Health Foundations• Catholic Charities of Sacramento• Susan G. Komen Foundation• Spiritual Life Center

Soroptimist Server Donation • File Server• Windows 2008 Server

(Active Directory)• SQL Database Server

Sponsors:• Dr. Jose Abad, our Medical Director

• County of Sacramento Public Health Lab

• Clara’s House Board Members & Volunteers

• Numerous Individual Donors

Services:• Primary Health Care

• Nutrition Education

• Limited Counseling

Thank Your

For Your

Partnership &

Compassion!

We are Clara’s House!