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New Orleans Musicians' Clinic
The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic (NOMC) is a comprehensive healthcare clinic dedicated to sustaining New Orleans’ musicians and tradition bearers by providing access to affordable medical services, regardless of the individual's ability to pay. Founded by several cultural community organizations in 1998, the NOMC has developed a unique access point to primary occupational health care for a population of artists who are insured, under insured or uninsured. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005, the New Orleans Musicians' Assistance Foundation evolved to expand the mission of the clinic and provide social services which assisted musicians and culture bearers in returning to the city. The programs at NOMC&AF are primarily donor driven and stress prevention, advocacy, and economic empowerment. Today the clinic engages many partners, providers and funders at the federal, state and local levels to serve the increasing demand of their more than 2,500 patients.
==Background and Mission==
As the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans has remained a cultural mecca for centuries. Local musicians are a vital resource to New Orleans in terms of its economic viability and vibrant cultural identity. In 2012, performers entertained more than 9 million visitors to the city. Yet even before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005 many musicians already suffered perpetual economic hardship and poor health as a result of limited access to affordable health care and lifestyle. In fact, the story of New Orleans musicians has too often been one of tragic death from preventable causes (take for example Buddy Bolden and James Booker). This illustrates problems that many US musicians face: poor health-seeking behaviors and a lack of access to high quality, affordable medical care. With few exceptions, New Orleans musicians are independent contractors working in a cash-based economy. Musicians rarely benefit from employee benefits (in particular health insurance) and at the time of current writing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration does not regular their working environment. ''They were, quite simply, a class excluded from the American health care delivery system''.〔(Do Ya Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans ) Medical Problems of Performing Artists, vol 2, 135–138, December 2007〕
NOMC became a local response to the challenging reality that many New Orleans musicians existed outside of the healthcare system. By evolving a small community clinic to provide culturally competent medical services to a unique group of New Orleans entertainers and performers, the goal of the NOMC was also to evolve their patient base from a group unaccustomed to receiving routine medical care to a group who engages in preventative health. ''The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic keeps New Orleans music culture alive by sustaining musicians, entertainers and tradition bearers in body, mind and spirit'',〔〔(About NOMAF )〕 by developing access to primary care, preventative health services, occupational and social services regardless of the ability to pay for such services.
The Assistance Foundation (NOMAF) emerged in 2005 to support the primary care provided by the NOMC while expanding its mission to take on cultural issues, such as creating economic opportunities for musicians through its NOMAF Gig Fund, raising awareness for noise-induced hearing loss during practice, onstage, at festivals and in local venues through the NOMAF Safe Sounds Program, providing a one-time benevolent payment for musicians facing extreme hardship through The NOMAF Emergency Fund and hosting community wellness events in and around New Orleans.
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