Cempa Community Care plans to open a walk-in health clinic housed in Metropolitan Ministries’ Impact Hub on Rossville Boulevard next month in an effort to bring primary medical care to an underserved area.
Bill Rush, CEO of Metropolitan Ministries, said in a phone interview the nonprofit approached Cempa about opening the clinic after hearing from the guests who use MetMin’s services that affordable, accessible health care is seriously lacking in the neighborhoods surrounding the Rossville Boulevard corridor.
Located in the 37407 ZIP code, the Impact Hub serves some of the least healthy ZIP codes in Tennessee.
“The health disparities in this community are some of the highest of the state, when you couple that with poverty, housing instability and some of the other factors,” Rush said.
The Impact Hub already houses two on-site social service providers and partners with others across the city whose missions overlap with MetMin’s goal of improving the overall well-being for residents at risk of instability in housing, utilities, nutrition and health.