Good Samaritan Clinic
 Every
Monday evening from 7-9 p.m. volunteers gather, many after already
completing a full day’s work, to help take care of the medical needs of
the area’s uninsured.
Located on Highway Y in Mountain View, the Good Samaritan Care Clinic (GSCC)
was founded in October 2003 by Sister Cornelia Blasko, Charles Cantrell,
Dr. John Noble, Keith David, Ron Hall, Janet McMullen and Suellen Roberts.
Relying solely on cash donations and support from Mountain View area
businesses and churches, as well as St. John’s Hospital in Springfield,
St. John’s St.
Retired West Plains physician
Mike Moore
Francis Hospital – Mountain
drives 40 miles to volunteer at the Good
View, and St. John’s Clinic -
Samaritan Clinic.
Mountain View
Mountain View. The free
resident Diana Henry
seeks care at the Good
clinic provides a last resort
Samaritan Clinic
to help treat high blood
for people like Diana Henry,
pressure.
who can’t afford medical care
on her $6.50 per hour part-time job.
Diana quit her job as a social worker three years ago to take care of her
terminally ill husband. After his passing, she found it difficult to find
employment in the area, and even more difficult to get health insurance.
“It’s too expensive to buy private insurance,” she explains. “Here I can
get my medicine that helps me control my high blood pressure. If it
weren’t for this place, I wouldn’t be able to visit a doctor.”
St. John’s Clinic physicians and staff Martha Colville, M.D.; Beverly
Denton, F.N.P.; Michael Gaddy, P.A.-C; Dave McVicker, F.N.P.; Michael
Moore, M.D.; Mohammed Tabibi, D.O.; Cora Thacker-Thompson, C.N.P. and Jon
Roberts, D.O. are among the 70-plus volunteers at the clinic.
 “The
care may be free, but it’s first class,” explains Rev. John Noble,
minister at Mountain View’s First Baptist Church. “Our goal is for a
person to feel they are worthwhile and it’s not second-rate service they
are getting.
Care is provided on a first-come, first-Rev.
Noble and Sister Cornelia
serve basis to those who have no
insurance or whose insurance
deductibles provide a barrier to accessing the health care they need.
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