Dear Friends and Supporters,

Welcome to our fall edition of Westminster Free Clinic’s newsletter. Megan Aguilera, a Junior at Stanford University and past graduate of our student intern program, is the editor of this publication. She interned at our clinic for 3 years while in high school and is now pursuing a career in healthcare. Megan has been a huge help to the clinic this summer giving presentations, creating reports, and assisting with the administrative side of clinic operation. Megan has been paid through a special program Stanford offers. We will miss her when she returns to school. Fortunately, her brothers and cousin are now interns at WFC. We have accomplished a lot in the past six months. Including: 1) Being asked to share WFC’s Teen Intern Training model at a California Wellness Foundation conference in San Francisco in June. Being invited to speak at the National Free Clinic Conference this October in Texas. 2) Recruiting six new doctors and nurse practitioners to volunteer at the clinic. 3) Selecting and training 54 new interns to join our returning students making a total intern class of 80 with 42 of them being bi-lingual in Spanish and English. 4) Offering SAT classes through our volunteer Dr. Mah, so our student interns that cannot afford expensive prep classes have a chance to compete on equal ground. Joan Stern, a college, career and scholarship counselor, also assists our high school student interns by helping them with their applications. 5) Saving the lives of seniors who try to put off healthcare until they receive Medicare at 65. One of the life or death stories is in this issue. 6) Having a team of over 255 volunteers make WFC and its services possible. 7) Completing our transition to Electronic Medical Records (funded by an individual donor), which allows us to operate 22-25 laptops at one time so we can serve 100 patients each clinic night. Thanks to all of you for your ongoing support which is changing the lives and futures of our patients, their families and of all our high school interns who partner with us to deliver healthcare. Most Appreciatively, Lisa Safaeinili, MPH, Executive Director