The newly reorganized and relocated free medical clinic in Port Angeles, Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics, will begin seeing patients at 6 p.m. Thursday.
The first night’s volunteer physicians are Drs. Bill Collins and Tom Locke.
Collins is president of the Volunteers in Medicine board and former chief medical officer of Olympic Medical Center.
Locke is the county’s health officer.
The first free clinic, the PAARC Clinic, was located in the basement of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.
The new clinic is at 909 Georgiana St.
PAARC Clinic successor
Dr. Ed Hopfner and his wife Phyllis began the PAARC Clinic, named for the group Port Angeles Association of Religious Communities, in 2001.
With the help of nurse practitioner Larry Germain and a handful of volunteers, they were serving as many as 100 patients a week.
In its four years of operation, the PAARC Clinic saw more than 3,000 individuals.
PAARC Clinic closed at the beginning of June.