The Clinic currently serves more than 940 patients per month with free or low-cost medical care. Although we are located in Phoenixville, our patients also come from everywhere in the five-county Philadelphia area as well as the states of New Jersey and Delaware. In fact, we have treated patients from over 104 different countries in the world! Unfortunately, the economic crisis has had a huge impact on the population we serve.  Clinics like ours all over the country are seeing an increase in new patients of 40-50%.  Because of the overwhelming influx of new patients, we were forced to close to new patients in June of this year.  When we reopen to new patients in September,  we will be imposing geographical restrictions for the first time in our history.  Current patients will not be affected by this change, but new patients will be limited to the geographical areas surrounding the Phoenixville and Paoli Hospitals.  A summer intern compiled an extensive list of other area clinics and health resources, so that when someone calls from outside of our geographical area, we have other resource options for them. 

While we would like to see everyone who comes to our door, the need has grown so great that we are unable to handle it in our current facility without taking measures such as imposing geographical boundaries on our patient population.  We have a waiting list of 28 clerical volunteers and 10 primary care doctors simply because we don't have room to put them.  The patient need exists, the volunteer base exists...we are simply out of room.  The Clinic is located in a three-story Victorian home with no elevator.  This building is the former abandoned rectory, of St. Peter's Episcopal Church.  In exchange for The Clinic raising the money to renovate the once-abandoned rectory, the church provided us with a ten-year lease at $1.00 per year.  We are currently in year seven of that lease agreement.