South Pittsburg’s old National Guard armory building.SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. – St. Luke Interfaith Clinic will have a new home in South Pittsburg after a contract is finalized with the city.
City Administrator Sammy Burrows said officials with the clinic requested to move their organization to the town’s old National Guard Armory building recently.
St. Luke Clinic is a nonprofit organization that provides non-emergency medical care to Marion County residents who don’t have health insurance.
“They operate off of a grant from the state,” Burrows said. “Basically, that grant pays for about $25 per patient. They have volunteer doctors, volunteer nurses and volunteer nurse practitioners that actually keep the clinic up and running.”
The Sequatchie Valley Honor Guard was using the armory as its home, but over the summer, that group moved permanently to Kimball, Tenn., leaving four empty rooms that the clinic can use.