The clinics operates under the direction of a volunteer medical director and a managing staff nurse who are assisted by a part-time nurse practitioner, a medication coordinator, a medical case manager and a host of volunteer healthcare professionals from the community. Although there are a number of healthcare initiatives to assist the poor and uninsured in the Roanoke Valley, there is no agency equipped to manage the specific healthcare needs of the homeless - a population plagued with medical, psychiatric and dental issues.
