Uninsured and underserved residents of the East Valley have a new place to get primary care. St. Vincent de Paul opened its East Valley Medical Clinic in Mesa on Wednesday, Oct. 7, with Arizona State University, Creighton University and Mayo Clinic as community partners, ASU News reported Friday.
The 10,100-square-foot building sits on Apache Road just east of Loop 101. It has 18 exam rooms, two procedure rooms, a small lab and a medication dispensary, and offers primary care for adults and children. Patients can also be connected to more than 30 Valley specialists who donate their time.
How to get seen
The clinic is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It does not take walk-ins in the usual sense: patients come by referral or after an eligibility screening, and people who think they may qualify are asked to call 602-261-6825.
It is the charity's second medical clinic; the first is in downtown Phoenix. Chief executive Shannon Clancy described the need for an East Valley location as urgent, noting that about 759,000 Arizonans, or 10.8% of the state's population, have no health insurance, according to federal figures cited in the release. That rate is above the national average.
