Includes bibliographical references and index.

Free clinics stand as a pillar of the health care safety net : findings from a narrative literature review / Emily Rose Schiller, Michelle Ann Thurston, Zubair Khan, and Michael D. Fetters -- Psychiatric street outreach to homeless people : fostering relationship, reconnection, and recovery / Richard C. Christensen -- Nurse practitioners in community health settings today / Lois A. Wessel -- Following the call : how providers make sense of their decisions to work in faith-based and secular urban community health centers / Farr A. Curlin, Karen D. Serrano, Matthew G. Baker, Sarah L. Carricaburu, Douglas R. Smucker, and Marshall H. Chin -- The Jane Dent Home : the rise and fall of homes for the aged in law-income communities / Susan G. Pfefferle, Ben Cooper, Debbie Layton, and Sharon Rohrbach -- Neighborhood clinics : an academic medical center-community health center partnership / Mina Siberberg, Kimberly S.H. Yarnall, Fred Johnson, Devdutta Sangvai, Rupal Patel, and Susan D. Yaggy -- Free Clinics helping to patch the safety net / Stephanie Geller, Buck M. Taylor, and H. Denman Scott -- Impact of providing a medical home to the uninsured : evaluation of a statewide program / James M. Gill, Heather Bittner Fagan, Bryan Townsend, and Arch G. Mainous, III -- Characteristics of patients at three free clinics / Rachel Mott-Keis, Linda Gifford DeGeus, Suzanne Cashman, and Judith Savageau -- Donated care programs : a stopgap measure or a long-run alternative to health insurance? / Jeffrey T. Kullgren, Erin Fries Taylor, and Catherine G. McLaughlin -- Missed appointment rates in primary care : the importanceof site of care / Karen E. Lasser, Ira L. Mintzer, Astrid Lambert, Howard Cabral, and David H. Bor -- Free clinics and the uninsured : the increasing demands of chronic illness / Mohan M. Nadkarni and John T. Philbrick -- Missed opportunities for patient education and social worker consultation at the arbor free clinic / Marie Soller and Lars Osterberg -- Adapting the chronic care model to treat chronic illness at a free medical clinic / Robert J. Stroebel, Bonnie Gloor, Sue Freytag, Douglas Riegert-Johnson, Steven A. Smith, Todd Huschka, Jim Naessens, and Thomas E. Kottke -- Medical respite care for homeless people : a growing national phenomenon / Suzanne Zerger, Bruce Doblin, and Lisa Thompson -- Balancing service and education : ethical management of student-run clinics / David Buchanan and Renee Witlen -- Quality of diabetes care at a student-run free clinic / Kira L. Ryskina, Yasmin S. Meah, and David C. Thomas -- Students who participate in a student-run free health clinic need education about access to care issues / B. Brent Simmons, Daniel Dejoseph, James Diamond, and Lara Weinstein -- The UCSD student-run free clinic project : transdisciplinary health professional education / Ellen Beck -- Charlottesville health access : a locality-based model of health care navigation for the homeless / Steven E. Bishop, James M. Edwards, and Mohan M. Nadkarni -- UCLA mobile clinic project / Joseph Hastings, Donna Zulman, and Soma Wali -- The promise clinic : a service-learning approach to increasing access to health care / Manuel Jimenez, Jennifer Tan, John Babineau, Jennifer Jimenez, Todd Billet, Charlene Flash, Steven J. Levin, Bernadette West, and Alfred F. Tallia -- Engaging student health organizations in reducing health disparities in underserved communities through volunteerism : developing a student health corps / Vickie M. Mays, Lichin Ly, Erica Allen, and Sophia Young -- HealthSTAT : a student approach to building skills needed to serve poor communities / Carmen Patrick and Arun Mohan.