4/18/13 - After a lot of fundraising, hard work and community support, Faith Medical Clinic will re-open its doors this weekend. The clinic serves those in need without medical insurance and will lease the old Pinckney library building on Mower Road, which has been on the market since November. Mitch and Laura Goldman founded the clinic and finalized a lease agreement yesterday morning with the Pinckney Library Board. Theyâll begin moving into the facility today and several volunteers will be helping move furniture from a warehouse in Livonia donated by a physician who owns a company and several urgent care centers. Under the terms of the deal, the clinic will rent the building for $2,000 a month. Since the building has been on the market for sale, the lease will be renewable every four months in case a buyer steps forward. Laura Goldman tells WHMI patients have been calling and keeping up with the news and everyone is very excited to know theyâre back in business. Itâs been about nine weeks since a fire destroyed the clinic's previous location in the old Putnam Township annex and Goldman says the chief concern has always been the status of their patients and being able to see them again. Ultimately, she says theyâre hoping someone will purchase the old library and then lease it to them at a nominal rate as an investment. Goldman says they will be seeing patients Saturday morning and then later on, a spaghetti dinner from 5 to 7:30pm is planned at the Pinckney Masonic Lodge. Goldman says itâs one of their annual fundraisers but it just happened to be good timing on the day they re-open for business. Meanwhile, donations are still being accepted and can be made at any PNC Bank Branch to The Faith Medical Clinic Fund. (JM)
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