The Loudoun Free Clinic Overview
A member of the Virginia Association of Free Clinics
A member of the National Association of Free Clinics

The Loudoun Free Clinic, the sole project of the Catoctin Foundation (formed in 1998), serves those uninsured residents of Loudoun County with limited incomes. The LCFC is a private, not-for-profit organization and has been in continuous operation since last opening on January 10, 2002. Doctors see patients every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Other clinicians see patient’s additional days. The specialty clinics include diabetic, hypertension, asthma as well as acute care. Staffing for the Clinic is provided entirely by a dedicated corps of 100+ volunteers from the medical community and the community-at-large. Each clinic requires an average of 10 volunteers from physicians and nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, interpreters and administrative staff.

Since 2002 we have grown from being open once weekly to full time. For fiscal year ending 2006, we had three specialty clinics weekly and saw in excess of 3,500 patient visits. While there is a paid staff of five, volunteers gave over 1,582 individual efforts and donated over 3,600 hours of their time. The Loudoun Free Clinic operates in dedicated space of about 2,800 square feet. Our space, including utilities, housekeeping and phone service are donated by Inova Loudoun Hospital. It is truly a community effort; many individuals and business whose donations range from dinners, gardening, furniture to medical equipment and much, much more.

Loudoun Free Clinic patients receive quality health care services for acute and chronic illnesses. Medications, laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging services are provided free of charge to the patient. Referrals to specialists are provided free of charge through a network of specialists who also volunteer their time. We provide education and specialized classes as well. Imaging services are provided through in-kind donations from Reston Hospital, Reston Radiology Associates, MRI of Reston, Fairfax Radiology, Washington Radiology and Radiology Imaging Associates. Lab services are provided through an in-kind donation from Quest Laboraties.

Providing medications to our patients is one of our highest budget items we must cover. In the last 12 months, we have spent $185,000 on medications for our patients.

For every $1 the clinic spends, it delivers $5.00 in health care. For year ending 6/30/06 we delivered $4.85 million in health care services to the residents of Loudoun County. This is up from $3.2 million in services the previous year.

As the demand has increased so, too, goes the types of services required. We have continued to expand our services to the uninsured of Loudoun County. Such expansion certainly requires more avenues of funding and brings with it the need for more staffing — both volunteer, and paid.

We have benefited from monetary support from the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, The Town of Leesburg, and The Town of Hamilton. Inova Loudoun Hospital, Reston Hospital Center, Anthem BC/BS and State of Virginia, grants, local churches, civic organizations, businesses, foundations, as well as private citizens. We hold two special events yearly to raise money & awareness. We look to partner with the community on a continuing basis. We continue to cultivate and grow these relationships and to broaden our funding base through the identification of other avenues of support.

The needs of our patients should be our guide in determining expansion of services. The reality, however, is that funding will be the determining factor. At the end of the day, the kinds and extent of the services we can provide is directly attributable to the available funding.

Loudoun Free Clinic

224-B Cornwall Street * Leesburg, Virginia 20175 * 703/779-5416