Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC) will unveil its refurbished Women’s Health Exam Room funded by a three-year, $75,000 grant from MetroPower at 12 noon on Tuesday, November 29, 376 Rogers Avenue.
A new power exam curtain, ceiling hung privacy curtains and microscope have been purchased with the first year’s award. Subsequent installments will fund a new colposcope, Gardisil vaccines, LEEP procedures, and nurse practitioner salary support for enhanced women’s health services.

Sixty-nine percent of Macon Volunteer Clinic’s patients are women. Eighty-five percent of Macon Volunteer Clinic’s patients earn less than $25,000 a year. Women in general need more health care and are also more likely to be poor. Health care costs can threaten their health and economic security. Women are more likely than men to require health care throughout their lives. Throughout their reproductive years, regardless of whether they have children, women require substantially more contact with medical providers than men their age.

MVC Medical Director Matt Astin says, “Through the generosity of MetroPower, we will be able to provide our female patients with the privacy and up to date services they deserve. This is a gigantic step toward improving women’s health in our community.”

Macon Volunteer Clinic was established in 2003 and is powered by philanthropy and volunteer providers. Its purpose is to foster a community where all working adults, regardless of insurance or ability to pay, can lead healthy and productive lives. To be eligible for its services – at no cost – patients must reside in Bibb or Twiggs county, work, be between 18-64 years of age, have no health insurance, and earn at or lower than 200% of the Federal Poverty Limits.