PORT ANGELES — Businesses can help themselves by supporting the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Olympics, Larry Little, the clinic’s executive director, said Tuesday.
VIMO helps keep a good employee with a health problem from getting sicker, taking lots of leave or leaving the job altogether, Little said.
Little spoke to the weekly breakfast meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association in Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive.
The little clinic at 909 Georgiana Street logged 2,742 visits last year, and 42 percent of them were working people with too little insurance or none at all, he said.
“They’re trying,” Little said, but added that the working poor aren’t poor enough to qualify for state of federal coverage.
“They’re out there making money that puts them out of the Medicaid classification.”
