Expanding MCRC’s Community Health Clinic Capacity

Grantee: Muslim Association of Puget Sound – Muslim Community Resource Center
Timeframe: October 2024 – September 2025 | Amount: $29,979.84

Muslim Community Resource Center (MCRC) will expand its Community Health Clinic program to better serve low-income immigrant and refugee clients. The grant will enable MCRC to increase its clinic capacity from 12 to 16 clinics per year, adding 4 additional clinics. Each clinic provides medical examinations, treatments, and referrals for approximately 25 clients, and the expanded capacity will allow MCRC to serve up to 100 clients during the funded clinics.

MCRC’s clinic is well-positioned to utilize the grant due to its deep community engagement. Approximately 90% of clients are immigrants, refugees, or asylum seekers, with 70% being women and 65% undocumented. The clinic addresses the needs of clients who might be reluctant to seek traditional medical care and serves a predominantly BIPOC population.

The Medical Clinic Coordinator, with a background in public health, oversees all clinic activities, including event coordination, volunteer and client scheduling, compliance, and data management. The clinic operates with volunteer medical professionals, including doctors and physicians from other King County clinics and hospitals. Coverage by the Washington Healthcare Access Alliance’s (WHAA) Volunteer and Retired Provider (VRP) program ensures that all providers are licensed and insured, offering a broad network of referrals.

MCRC’s case managers are available in person at the Redmond Together Center from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, providing case management in 12 languages through a team of multilingual case managers. Additionally, MCRC services are accessible 24/7 via phone through the King County 211 emergency hotline. The case management team collaborates closely to match clients with the appropriate language services, and when necessary, a phone-based interpretation service is used to accommodate any linguistic needs not covered by the staff.

SMART Goals for MCRC Community Health Clinic:

1. Provide 4 additional community health clinics within one year of receiving the grant.
2. Serve an average of 20 clients per clinic, totaling 80 clients across the 4 additional clinics.
3. Ensure that over 85% of clients served identify as BIPOC, immigrants, refugees, or asylum seekers.

ABOUT OUR GRANTEE

Muslim Association of Puget Sound – Muslim Community Resource Center

“The MAPS Muslim Community Resource Center is a social and humanitarian service organization of MAPS that is dedicated to helping the less fortunate in the Pacific Northwest community. We partner with other nonprofits (Muslim & non-Muslim), city and local services, assistance providers to serve those in need.

MCRC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.”