Brenda Workman gets her prescription filled at the Greenville Free Medical Clinic. She says with her kidney problems she has to have her medications, even though on her limited income she can't afford the price tag.
She says, "It is kind of scary because I realize I have to have medicine but I know that if I can't pay for them there's no way in the world that I myself can make it."
That's why the Greenville Free Clinic enrolled her in a program called CommuniCare. It is a program to help the working uninsured poor receive the medicine the desperately need for free.
CommuniCare's CEO Ken Trogden says, "If you look at the patient that's on four to six medications they would spend over in essence 600 dollars per month for their drugs and they get them all donated through us."
He says pharmaceutical companies donate to CommuniCare in bulk and that way the agency can offer name brand drugs to people in need at no cost.
Trogden says, "For someone to qualify they have to fall at or below 200 percent of poverty to give you an idea, a family of four would be a little over forty-one thousand annually a person of one household would be a little over eleven thousand."
At the Greenville Free Medical Clinic they serve around one thousand people, like Brenda, through CommuniCare with most of the patients suffering from hypertension, diabetes and asthma.
According to Trogden, CommuniCare's goal is to make sure these people stay productive and out of the hospital.
"It has given me a freedom that I can at least know my medicine is going to be there when I need it."
She says that's a huge burden lifted to help her get through this time when she's down and out.
CommuniCare serves 15,000 people in
If you would like to see if you qualify for CommuniCare you can call them at 1-800-763-0059 or log onto their website by clicking this link. www.communicare.us
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