With nearly one in five Americans living with a mental illness, the need for the local Church to address this issue is clear. Now, for the first time ever, the Diocese of Phoenix will be home to an Office of Mental Health Ministry.
March 5, 2021
Dr. John Anwar, medical director at the Virginia G. Piper Medical Clinic in Phoenix, says many uninsured people turn to hospitals for care, but that shouldn’t be the case. A new $10 million partnership aims to change that. (Photo courtesy of St. Vincent de Paul)
PHOENIX – A new $10 million partnership will put medical students and other care providers under one roof to serve people of color and other underprivileged communities in Maricopa County. The partnership between Creighton University, St. Vincent de Paul and Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust was announced Thursday.
For more than a decade, students in their third and fourth years at Creighton’s medical school, as well as faculty members, have volunteered monthly at the Virginia G. Piper Medical Clinic in Phoenix. Now the clinic will be the main teaching facility for first and second year students, too. Together they will help underrepresented communities and uninsured Arizonans receive medical care that
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