Our Vision
Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) began in Hilton Head, South Carolina in 1993. When the first VIM Clinic was conceived, organizing members believed that everyone would benefit in some fashion from a community committed to helping one another. Founder Dr. Jack McConnell brought together people with no access to health care and retired medical personnel (physicians, nurses, dentists) to provide free health services.
The Hilton Head program was so successful that the Volunteers in Medicine Institute (VIMI) was created in response to requests for assistance in replicating the VIM Clinic model in communities across the country. Today more than 45 VIM clinics operate throughout the United States. Health Services In-Action will partner with VIMI to create a sustaining resource for the medically underserved of North Mississippi. For more information visit www.vimi.org.
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Our Mission
OMMC recognized that attention to the individual's need for continuity of health care services improves the overall quality of health in a community and realizing that only a small percentage of the projected population of Lafayette and Yallobusha Counties' targeted community members were being served, a plan was conceived to create a clinic to provide access to primary care for the medically underserved of our area. With the donation of the land and the building, the dream took form and opened the door for a free medical care for this hardworking segment of the community.
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Our Progress
- Over 230 patients currently being provided health care
- $171,489 of prescriptions dispensed
- 2420 individual prescriptions provided
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