Fourth Street Clinic's mission is to help homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high-quality health care and support services.

Fourth Street Clinic's vision is to end homelessness in our community.

Description:
Wasatch Homeless Health Care, Inc. (dba Fourth Street Clinic) is a full-service "health home" for homeless Utahns which offers comprehensive primary health care and support services to individuals and families in the Salt Lake City area. In additional to primary care, the clinic offers on-site specialty care and off-site specialty referral services, as well as an on-site pharmacy for patients.

Working together with partner agencies and the community, we seek to improve the health status and quality of life of the homeless population we serve.

History:
In 1987, Dr. Allan Ainsworth, Fourth Street Clinic's founder and executive director, was driving in Salt Lake City and saw a long line of people waiting for food and other social services. He thought to himself that no one should ever have to wait for basic life necessities. With the help of the Stuart B. McKinney Act, one year later Ainsworth founded Wasatch Homeless Health Care, Inc. (WHHC), a place where homeless people could receive free, primary health care services. WHHC began as a one-room operation staffed by Ainsworth and one part-time nurse. In 1993, the clinic moved to its current location and reopened as the Fourth Street Clinic. Now 37 medical and behavioral health professionals, support staff, and administration personnel are employed by the clinic. Fourth Street also partners with more than 210 specialists throughout the community and oversees more than 30 in-house volunteer medical professionals to provide pharmacy services, primary health care and operate on-site specialty clinics. In 2001, a no-cost, on-site pharmacy was opened; in 2004, Fourth Street began to actively place long-term patients into permanent housing. In 2007, nearly 6,000 patients made Fourth Street Clinic their medical home.

Contact person: Tiia Libin, (phone), (email)
Main office number: (801) 364-0058

Address:

404 South 400 West Salt Lake City, UT 84101 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.fourthstreetclinic.org