Recommended Links
Clinics and Health Projects
Third Root will add to and amend this list periodically, and we encourage you to browse our Bibliography and visit our Resource Library at Third Root for other resources. (Also, if you find a broken link here or have a link to add to this list, drop us a line at website@thirdroot.org and let us know.)
Clinics
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Farmacy — Providence, RI
www.farmacyherbs.com
Founded in 2000, Farmacy Herbs (affectionately referred to as “Cemetery Street”) is a non-profit (501-c3) donation based herb shop and community health center. We offer sliding scale natural health consultations to community members. Our goal is to offer holistic-based information and resources to cancer patients, such as Detoxification and Using Food as Medicine, Exercise and Lifestyle Change, Herbal Medicine classes, Reiki, Energy Work, and Mental Health/Spirituality Support Groups. Farmacy residents and supporters are working to create accessible community health care and wellness through environmental awareness and holistic medicine. We strive towards being a model of affordable alternatives to harmful environmental practices and allopathic medicine. (JB)
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Grian Herbs — Montpelier, VT
www.grianherbs.com
Grian Herbs’ mission is to produce highest quality herbal extracts from medicinals grown organically on our farm and local area, to emphasize awareness of bioregional herb use and the local community, to monitor and provide sanctuary for endangered native plants, and to provide educational opportunities and hands-on knowledge. (JB)
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Ithaca Free Clinic — Ithaca, NY
www.ithacahealth.org
Ithaca Free Clinic is open to all uninsured members of our community. Our staff of volunteer physicians, herbalists, acupuncturists and others join with us in supporting the belief that access to healthcare is a right, and not a privilege. It is our mission to facilitate access to healthcare for all with a focus on the needs of the uninsured. At Ithaca Free Clinic, we offer 100% free conventional and holistic healthcare services for anyone without health insurance. (JB)
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Mesothelioma Center
www.asbestos.com
Acupuncture has been linked to alleviating the nausea associated with chemotherapy and the pain incurred from the constant surgeries that cancer patients undergo. The Mesothelioma Center is an up-to-date resource for all mesothelioma issues ranging from mesothelioma disease to diagnosis options to information on affiliated clinics across the country that can provide care. (JHC)
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Porcupine Clinic — Pine Ridge, SD
www.lakotamall.com/porcupine
Built by a group of committed Lakota community leaders with grants from private foundations, the Porcupine Clinic has had more than 12,500 visits from 3,200 patients since opening in 1992. No one is turned away for lack of insurance or inability to pay. The Porcupine Clinic has provided more than $400,000 in free healthcare to people who would not otherwise have had treatment. The Porcupine Clinic is the only independent Indian community-controlled health clinic in the US. (JB)
Organizations
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American Medical Students Association — Reston, VA
www.amsa.org
The American Medical Student Association is committed to improving healthcare and healthcare delivery to all people; promoting active improvement in medical education; involving its members in the social, moral and ethical obligations of the profession of medicine; assisting in the improvement and understanding of world health problems; contributing to the welfare of medical students, premedical students, interns, residents and post-MD/DO trainees; and advancing the profession of medicine. (JB)
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Doctors for Global Health — Decatur, GA
www.dghonline.org
Doctors for Global Health seeks to improve health and foster other human rights with those most in need by accompanying communities, while educating and inspiring others to action. DGH affirms that every human being, regardless of race, gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, culture, age or other attribute, has the right to a life of dignity, equal treatment, and social justice. (JB)
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The Gesundheit! Institute — Arlington, VA
www.patchadams.org
The Gesundheit! Institute, a not-for-profit health care organization chartered under the Nonprofit Corporation Act of the District of Columbia, is a project in holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, the world, and the healthcare system itself. Gesundheit’s model is designed to protect care as the core of the medical interaction. Members of the Institute are health practitioners and health educators. Gesundheit’s intention is to model creative problem solving and to spark each medical facility to design their own ideal — to deliver healthcare in a context that is our ideal design and educate other healthcare practitioners to design their ideal models for care. (JB)
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières — International
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from healthcare, or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. (JB)
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The Northeast Radical Healthcare Network — Northeast US
www.radherb.org
We are scattered like seeds all over the Northeast. We are community healthcare providers, family herbalists, medicine makers, healthcare educators, gardeners, wildcrafters, organizers, writers, practitioners, midwives, caregivers, nurses, medics, advocates, and more. We have built free clinics that challenge the class divide. We have created forums for discussion and deliberation around issues of oppression within healthcare. Many of us are involved in autonomous healthcare collectives, working to support one another through collective knowledge and trust. Some of us are just learning about these kinds of things, just beginning to scratch the surface of our interest in healthcare and social justice. Some of us have become well versed in one area or another, writing and teaching about what we know. Most of us are somewhere in between, following our interests in healthcare as they carry us deeper. We are diverse, we are growing, and we are everywhere! (JB)
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Physicians for Human Rights — Cambridge, MA
www.physiciansforhumanrights.org
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them. (JB)
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Physicians for Social Responsibility — Washington, DC
www.psr.org
Physicians for Social Responsibility is the medical and public health voice working to prevent the use or spread of nuclear weapons and to slow, stop, and reverse global warming and toxic degradation of the environment. (JB)
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Rock Dove Collective — New York, NY
www.rockdovecollective.org
The Rock Dove Collective is a radical community health exchange working to address the need for accessible and anti-oppressive health care in our communities. We coordinate a network of health practitioners who provide physical, mental, sexual, emotional, social, and spiritual care from a (radical/progressive) perspective on well-being. Many of our practitioners accept mutual aid in exchange for their services; the Rock Dove Collective strongly encourages this and believes that incorporating mutual aid into more instances in our lives will help to set the foundation for a freer and more just world. (JB)
