Statistics
The United States is in the midst of a perfect health care storm:
- Cost of care continues to sky-rocket.
- Access to primary care (like family physicians) or any health care at all is shrinking.
- There is a surge of preventable diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers.
Nationally, 48 million Americans do not have health insurance; In Wisconsin, 5 residents die every week due to lack of insurance.
- The Chippewa Valley Free Clinic has served 5,800 patients since opening in 1997.
- These patients have received over 25,000 visits.
- Roughly 800 individuals are served per year, half of whom view CVFC as a medical home.
- The uninsured visit the emergency room at twice the rate of the uninsured.
- It costs $404 to serve one patient for one year at our clinic. This includes exams, labs, imaging such as x-rays, medications, and some specialty care.
- CVFC distributes over $1 million of medications per year at a cost just shy of $100,000. For every $1 donated, we can provide over $10 to our patients.
