Community Clinics
While IFM does not currently operate any independent clinic sites that are open to the general public, several of our partnerships focus on specific populations and provide for a medical home for those populations.
The clinic at Youth and Family Center opened in 2022. IFM operates a clinic every Thursday afternoon seeing children and families as well as seniors, ensuring they have the acute and preventive care they need. Anchored in North City Youth and Family Center acts as an anchor to help stabilize their immediate community and connect their neighbors to the services they need.
Community Connections Health Clinic
The Community Connections Health Clinic (CCHC) opened in 2023, and was made in partnership between IFM Community Medicine and the Connections for Health and Healing Program and SSM Health DePaul Hospital. CCHC is open Monday morning and afternoon, Tuesday morning, and Friday morning. The clinic serves both the students of the Pattonville School District, but also the greater community effected by Bridgeton Landfill. The clinic serves residents of the 63042, 63043, 63044, 63045, and 63074 zip codes at no cost to the patients. We are also open to serve the greater St. Louis area to help those with unaddressed health issues due to living in under resourced communities. CCHC provides a variety of services from sick visits and physicals to well woman visits and preventative care. Our medical professionals and Community Health Workers who staff the clinic work very hard to make sure the patients receive the medical care they need and deserve at the lowest cost possible for them.
Formerly Catholic Charities South Side, this partnership was established in 2008 when case manager Sister Cecelia Pham and her supervisor asked Dr. Campbell to set up a clinic for the population, predominately elders, of Vietnamese speaking individuals for whom they were providing other case management services. This clinic has had several locations, but is now “built into” the St Francis Community Center.
When Dr. Ed Stewart was superintendent of the Hancock Place School District, it was his vision that the school would be a community resource, and one way to do that was to host a clinic that would serve anyone in the school district (which approximates the 63125 zip code) at no out-of-pocket expense. Initially operating two half days per week on the grounds of the elementary school campus, the clinic has moved to the early childhood and administration campus and grown to provide three half days of medical, one half day of mental health, nutrition counseling, and chiropractic services. Patients must show proof of 63125 residence or be a student or staff of the district.
As noted above in the “youth” programs, the Drop-In clinic is a partnership with Epworth Children and Family Services. This clinic provides the hub for our youth programs since it is open to anyone age 11-20 years to drop in (and up to 24 years with an appointment).