Art Gallery Supports Free Clinic Coventry Care has space for art and health
By Carol Thompson
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| A view of the Coventry Care gallery. |
Nurse Martha
Coventry and Dr. Joan Traver are behind a new free medical clinic that
is scheduled to open on Monday, Nov. 18, in Sister Bay, and they're
already looking beyond patients' physical health.
They want
patients to feel comfortable visiting a free clinic, and they want to
find easy ways to let people give back if they can't donate cash. That's
why they've made space for an art gallery in the clinic building,
located on Koessl Lane near Country Walk Shops.
"We had to
find some way to support the clinic, if we're not asking people to pay
when they have nothing or have very little," Traver said. "This is a way
for people to donate and volunteer."
The gallery
is more like a thrift shop, Traver said. When people donate art - which
varies from cross-stitch to prints to signed paintings - clinic
volunteers will price it and hang it in the gallery. All the money
raised from sold art will support the clinic.
Coventry and Traver will see walk-in patients for urgent care needs, general physicals and lab work. To read more about the clinic, click here>>