Gloucester-Mathews Care Clinic announced recently that it has expanded its patient eligibility criteria, and will shift its service model to what is known as a “hybrid” clinic. The clinic will continue to serve uninsured patients, but will also accept Medicaid-enrolled patients. 

This is in response Virginia becoming the 33rd state in the nation to expand Medicaid. This means approximately 400,000 people throughout Virginia will have access to quality, low-cost health insurance through the state’s Medicaid expansion, according to Care Clinic executive director Arlene Armentor. 

Clinic supporters Charles and Mari Ann Banks recently hosted a gathering of GMCC’s stakeholders at their home at White Hall in Zanoni to announce and discuss the upcoming changes. The new model is slated to take effect in January 2020.

GMCC was started in 1998 when a group of members from Abingdon Episcopal Church launched a local medical clinic to serve community members who...