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FIGHTING FOR COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL CARE FOR LOW-INCOME WORKERS IN THE BAY AREA |
About CCMP
CCMP volunteer organizer Magatte Ayinde leads an orientation for new volunteers interested in volunteering
within CCMP's Preventive Medical Benefit program.
COALITION OF CONCERNED MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS (CCMP) is an all-volunteer effort, rooted in the community, founded in the Bay Area in 1976. CCMP is independent from government funding or any funding with strings attached. CCMP is structured as a free and voluntary unincorporated private membership association – not as a 501(c)(3). CCMP’s primary purpose is to overcome political and economic barriers that deny access to comprehensive medical care for any and all working people. This has included conducting campaigns to defeat laws or governmental policies detrimental to the interests of low-income workers.
CCMP takes an approach that incorporates medical care, ancillary health services, procurement of healthy foods for supplemental food distributions and joining with organizations of low-income workers whose members suffer lack of access to quality, affordable care. CCMP may choose to align with community groups to change conditions creating poor health, including environmental concerns.
CCMP urgently needs VOLUNTEERS: doctors, nurses, dentists, medical and dental specialists, physical therapists, dental hygienists, students and all those with a willingness to learn how to organize to fight the conditions which deny comprehensive medical care to workers and their families here in the Bay Area.
CCMP volunteer health care professionals donate preventive care to applicants screened for eligibility by CCMP benefit program volunteers. Many benefit recipients are members of self-help organizations of low-income workers.
CCMP’s preventive medical care benefit program is free-of-charge and includes:
CCMP preventive medical care programs are run with the understanding that the primary enemies of good health for the majority of poor and working people are the overwhelming odds against which they must battle for a stable income, safe living and working conditions, and adequate food and clothing. Without these prerequisites to good health, preventive care to ward off complications from undiagnosed and untreated conditions goes by the wayside, reflected in statistics ranking U.S. life expectancy lower than over 40 other nations due to the extent of poverty among low-income workers. Join CCMP today to make a difference!
CCMP takes an approach that incorporates medical care, ancillary health services, procurement of healthy foods for supplemental food distributions and joining with organizations of low-income workers whose members suffer lack of access to quality, affordable care. CCMP may choose to align with community groups to change conditions creating poor health, including environmental concerns.
CCMP urgently needs VOLUNTEERS: doctors, nurses, dentists, medical and dental specialists, physical therapists, dental hygienists, students and all those with a willingness to learn how to organize to fight the conditions which deny comprehensive medical care to workers and their families here in the Bay Area.
CCMP volunteer health care professionals donate preventive care to applicants screened for eligibility by CCMP benefit program volunteers. Many benefit recipients are members of self-help organizations of low-income workers.
CCMP’s preventive medical care benefit program is free-of-charge and includes:
- General Medical Sessions
- Non-Emergency Dental Care
- Medical Education & Information Sessions
- Optical Care
- Medical Advocacy Sessions
- Information and Referral
- Supplemental Nutrition
- CCMP quarterly publication, Vital Signs
CCMP preventive medical care programs are run with the understanding that the primary enemies of good health for the majority of poor and working people are the overwhelming odds against which they must battle for a stable income, safe living and working conditions, and adequate food and clothing. Without these prerequisites to good health, preventive care to ward off complications from undiagnosed and untreated conditions goes by the wayside, reflected in statistics ranking U.S. life expectancy lower than over 40 other nations due to the extent of poverty among low-income workers. Join CCMP today to make a difference!
