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Samaritan's Touch Care Center is a nonprofit outpatient medical clinic with two Highlands County, Florida, locations - one in Sebring and one in Lake Placid. It considers itself a Christian ministry and says many persons who have been helped by it "have dedicated their lives to Christ and began a personal relationship with Jesus Christ." It provides free health services to persons who meet these criteria: *Have no medical insurance of any kind (not even Medicaid or Medicare). *Have a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level.〔"Samaritan's Touch Care Center," (Sebring, Florida: Samaritan's Touch Care Center, Inc., ca. 2012), pp. 3, 6.〕〔"Maguire State Mission Offering," in Florida Baptist Witness website at http://www.gofbw.com/news.asp?ID=9174 .〕〔Non Profit Facts website, http://www.nonprofitfacts.com/FL/Samaritans-Touch-Care-Center-Inc.html .〕 ==History== Samaritan's Touch apparently had its beginnings in 2006 and, according to the NonProfiFacts.com website, became a charitable organization in March 2007. The Sebring clinic opened in May 2007 and has always been at the Herring Avenue location, just across the street from the Sebring Comcast customer service center. Samaritan's Touch was organized to provide healthcare services to those who cannot afford any type of health care. Highlands County has a large number of persons who do not have work or do work, but make little more than the Federal minimum wage. The clinic has always run with mostly volunteer help. Dr. Luis M. Pena from the beginning has volunteered service as the clinic's primary care physician. According to the Manta website, as of 2012, the clinic has grown to have nine employees.〔Manta website at http://www.manta.com/c/mmps04z/samaritan-s-touch-care-center .〕〔NonProfitFacts.com website, http://www.nonprofitfacts.com .〕〔Healthgrades website at http://www.healthgrades.com/group-directory/florida-fl/sebring/samaritans-touch-care-center-25d330a2 .〕 In early 2010 Samaritan's Touch planned to open a clinic in Lake Placid. Diana Furr, then executive director of the clinic, said 15% of the patients seen at the Sebring clinic were from the Lake Placid area. From 2007 to 2010 the Sebring clinic logged more than 15,000 patient visits. Samaritan's Touch opened its Lake Placid clinic July 11, 2011. Dr. Donald Dawkins, a Florida Hospital Lake Placid emergency room physician, became the volunteer medical director of the Lake Placid clinic.〔Bill Rogers, "Samaritan's Touch Care Center planning LP clinic," March 9, 2010, in Highlands Today online website, at http://www2.highlandstoday.com/news/highlands-news/2010/mar/09/1a-samaritans-touch-care-clinic-planning-lp-clinic-ar-320874/ .〕〔Bill Rogers, "Samaritan's Touch clinic to open in Lake Placid," June 3, 2011, in Highlands Today online website, at http://www2.highlandstoday.com/news/2011/jun/03/LAINSIDO1-samaritans-touch-clinic-to-open-in-lake--ar-234597 .〕〔"Dr. Tom McDonald 5K Race," Aug. 15, 2012, in News Sun website, at http://www.newssun.com/DrTom5K .〕 In July 2010 Florida Hospital Heartland Division for a time loaned an administrator to Samarian's Touch to help expand the clinic's reputation, reach and resources. In 2011 Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center donated more than $1.5 million in diagnostic imaging, laboratory services and outpatient services to Samaritan's Touch patients. The Moffitt Cancer Center offered cancer care in Tampa, Florida.〔Rogers, "Samaritan's Touch clinic to open in Lake Placid."〕〔"Several recognized for help with Samaritan's Touch," March 25, 2012, in News Sun website, at http://www.newssun.com/news/032512-samaritans .〕〔Florida Hospital system website, at http://fh.floridahospital.com/heartland/ .〕 Several websites provide detailed financial data on Samaritan's Touch. All of these use the latest data available, the 2010 year. The gist of the data is that this organization had assets of $272,148 and revenues of $510,082. Similarly, a news story in the local newspaper, ''Highlands Today'', in July 2012 said 2,250 patients are served by the Sebring and Lake Placid clinics.〔NonProfitFacts.com website.〕〔Guide Star website, at http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/02-0773338/samaritans-touch-care-center.aspx .〕〔TaxExemptWorld.com website, at http://www.taxexemptworld.com/organization.asp?tn=1539637 .〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samaritan's Touch Care Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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