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Kansas City Free Health Clinic
Dr. Good Vibes just keeps on truckin'. Next month, he'll be in a moving van, transferring his thirty-year-old Kansas City Free Health Clinic a few blocks north of its longtime haunt at 2 East 39th Street (the east side branch clinic at 24th and Denver is staying put). At the new location (35th and Broadway) the clinic will continue to offer free dental services, general health care (for colds, flu and -- God forbid -- anthrax) and comprehensive AIDS programs (testing, treatment and prevention education). With 25,000 "patient visits" last year, the infirmary provided almost all of its services using volunteer professionals: doctors, nurses, mental-health workers and dentists. "We need more volunteers, so if any of your readers want to help, they can call," Director Sheri Wood tells the Pitch. Anyone who cannot afford health care is eligible for the clinic's services. They're as free as the love that got Dr. Good Vibes started back in 1971, when he declared, "A healthy hippy is a happy hippy."
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