Volunteers in Medicine America
VIM-NH is affiliated with a national non-profit, Volunteers in Medicine America, which helps to start free clinics around the country, which has opened close to 100 clinics in the last 30 years.
THE STORY OF VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
Volunteers in Medicine America (VIM America) began in Hilton Head, South Carolina. In the early 1990s, one out of three people who lived on Hilton Head Island had no access to health care, a rate twice the national average. At the same time, retired medical personnel including physicians, nurses, and dentists expressed an interest in finding a way to continue practicing their profession on a voluntary, part-time basis to help those without access to medical care.