Thanks to a generous grant from the Michigan Dental Association Foundation, the Clinic will be able to serve more uninsured, low-income metro Detroiters in need of dental care. A check presentation took place on August 20 at the Clinic.
A generous $40,000 grant will provide free dentures and dental care to low-income uninsured Detroiters, thanks to a fund administered by the Sisters of Mercy/Hermanas de la Misericordia.
WXYZ-TV's Glenda Lewis visits the Malta Clinic to learn about the new monthly eye clinics. Featured are opthalmologist Dr. Joel Pelavin; Kathryn Anderson, Clinic volunteer and patient; medical student Anthony Mrocko; and Malta Clinic President Thomas Larabell.
In Detroit Catholic: Eye clinic will operate once a month, providing vision screenings and glasses free of charge to clients who make $24K or less, lack insurance
In the Order of Malta American Association News: The eye clinic was organized by Timothy Page, M.D., K.M. Plans are to offer this free clinic twice a year.
In the Wayne State University School of Medicine News: The Malta Medical Clinic student organization has joined the ever-expanding ranks of free community clinics coordinated by students at the Wayne State University School of Medicine that serve the area’s uninsured and underinsured population.
The Catholic Foundation of Michigan board and team recently spent a day volunteering at the Malta Dental and Medical Clinic. The article discusses how the Clinic's partnership with Catholic Social Services of Southeast Michigan is allowing both organizations to serve more people.
Peggy Stanton, DM, radio host of "A Place of Peace" and a member of the Malta Clinic's board of directors, interviews Archbishop Allen Vigneron, Malta Clinic president Tom Larabell, and Paul Propson, CEO of Catholic Social Services of Southeast Michigan. The occasion was the formal opening of the building shared by the Clinic and CCSEM's Center for the Works of Mercy and its blessing by Archbishop Vigneron.
On the Catholic Foundation of Michigan website: “Our goal is to help people become healthy and presentable. Sometimes just getting their teeth cleaned helps someone feel more confident” shares Nancy Harmon R.D.H., Dental Director of the Dames and Knights of the Order of Malta’s Dental Clinic. She continues, “Our mission is to help provide healing. It is part of living out the call of the Beatitudes.”