Potential federal money for Rosa Clark clinic

An application to a division within the U-S Health and Human Services Administration could mean federal funds for Oconee’s only free medical clinic.  Vickie Thompson, executive director of the Rosa Clark clinic in Seneca, says a federally qualified designation from “HRSA”—Health Resources and Service Administration—could mean $850 thousand dollars to a clinic which has relied on pharmaceutical donations and volunteer work by doctors and other medical personnel.  “It would mean extended hours,” Thompson says.  The Oconee clinic is only one of four South Carolina counties whose free clinics don’t receive federal assistance.  The clinic is competing for the designation with Clemson Foothills Community Care and will know the outcome in October.