Cassie Tee

Review of Klinic Community Health

Very frustrated with Klinic, where public health i...

Very frustrated with Klinic, where public health isn't public. My boyfriend is a patient there and I wanted to start seeing the same doctor as him. We asked if I could be added as a patient and they told us that I had to call the doctor referral program and be referred. When I did that, they denied me because my boyfriend and I don't live together, and I do not live within the catchment area so I can't self-refer. My boyfriend and I have been together for 8 years and think it would be helpful to see the same Dr.
Today I came in with him for an appointment. My own doctor sent me for bloodwork so I thought I could do it at Klinic while I was there. Apparently not. They sent me across the street to another medical clinic, one that recently got rid of its lab. Klinic's lab is for Klinic patients only, and they refused to take me as a patient previously. This seems detrimental to their mission statement of being a community, public health facility. The nurse my boyfriend saw spoke of how they want their patients to be with them for life. But what about the patients they don't want, that they have turned away?