Remote Area Medical Ohio Event Planned for May
A grassroots medical expedition is creating a groundswell here in Ohio. Local Cleveland hospitals and almost every agency involved in health care will collaborate to make sure anyone without health insurance gets medical care during a special event to be held in May.
It’s called RAM Ohio. RAM is short for Remote Area Medical, an idea that has worked in rural Appalachia. It is modeled after RAM Tennessee.
The event will take place May 2 and 3 at the Berea, Ohio Fairgrounds, and will bring together hundreds of volunteer doctors, dentists, optometrists and other healthcare providers and hundreds of general volunteers. Anybody that shows up qualifies for free healthcare. There is no pre-registration, so patients will have to be prepared for long waits.
RAM is a totally grassroots effort run by volunteers, and there is no budget. Equipment is being donated, everything from x-ray machines to dental chairs and eyeglass frames.
Contact Information:
General non-medical volunteering: info@handsonneo.org
Medical volunteering: info@ramohio.org
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Ed Harris says:
April 8th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Interesting, although Ohio does not have many remote areas…especially in the Dayton-Cinncy area.
health insurance says:
November 7th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
We are a health insurance site who try to post all the free health programs and resources on the web for the needy and sick. I just posted this in my Ohio section, so thanks for the great info.