Financial
CCVIM is community-owned and supported entirely through local donations. We receive no federal or state funds. Your donation is tax-deductible (EIN # 20-5695518) and the entire amount stays within our service area to assist local people. Checks made payable to CCVIM may be sent to:
CCVIM,
310 East Third Street, PO Box 416,
Mifflinville, PA 18631
OR through Debit, Credit Card, or Paypal:
Time and skills
Check out our volunteer page! VOLUNTEER
Food Pantry
We had been offering a small food pantry to our patients, since it is not easy to get to other food banks with their work schedules and transportation. At this time, because of our increased infection control efforts, we will not be able to accept the usual non-perishable food donations. Thank you for past support and for thinking of our patients. We will post a notice here when this changes.
Medications and Durable Medical Goods
Many people try to donate “leftover” meds to the clinic. While we appreciate the thoughtfulness, and understand that disposing of unused and expensive meds seems wasteful, we generally cannot accept such medications. We can only accept factory-sealed, unexpired medications, and they must be common ones our patients might use. The disposal of meds for the clinic is expensive and time-consuming. Please call to check with staff to see if our patients could use them, and to make an appointment to drop anything off. Also, a reminder, CCVIM does not prescribe controlled substances and we do not have any narcotics at all at the clinic.
Here is practical advice on how to dispose of unused drugs (and a list of takeback locations in PA) :
Unused Medicine Disposal
The clinic has very limited storage space. We cannot generally accept any durable medical goods, like walkers or crutches, specialized chairs, hospital beds, glucometers, or CPAP machines. We also have enough gauze, bandages, saline syringes, and other home health care items. Remember our patients are mobile and working, not home-bound, so while someone may need those things, the people we serve do not.
Thank you to our major corporate donors!
Your donation of funds and services makes comprehensive healthcare for our uninsured patients possible!
BIDA- Berwick Industrial Development Association
Central Susquehanna Community Foundation
CSS Industries- Berwick Offray
The Dental Health Clinic of Berwick
The Magee Foundation
SAC- Slavonic American Club Berwick
SECA- State Employee Combined Appeal
BIDA Donation
Our gratitude goes to the Berwick Industrial Development Association (B.I.D.A.) for their yearly donation of supplies that reduce our costs of keeping the clinic going. Their generous support helps us with keeping good health in our community, and this is only one way they make a better quality of life possible for people in our area. Thanks again, BIDA!
LCBC Donation
This year, instead of the thoughtful gift bags from the LCBC Church, the congregation asked what they could do instead. With many of our patients facing job loss, or a reduction in hours due to the pandemic, food insecurity has become a big issue for many local families. With the generosity of the church members, those families were helped with a $25 or a $50 gift card to make sure that people were not going hungry at the holidays. Thank you, on behalf of the staff, volunteers, and patients of CCVIM Clinic.
Thank you to BIDA!
Thank you to our not-so-Secret-Santa, the Berwick Industrial Development Association. Each year BIDA generously donates the necessary office supplies that help to keep the clinic in business. CCVIM is so blessed to be located in such a supportive community!
Thank you to the LCBC Church!
A huge thank you to the congregation of LCBC Columbia-Montour for the donation of present bags (these are only a few of the ones left pictured here) for our patients. Each year, the church makes sure the members of our community that we serve have something extra under their trees in December.
Last year one of our patients and her husband shared that without these gifts they would not have had anything at all to open on Christmas. All of our patients have asked us to thank you and tell you they appreciate how you are “making Spirits bright!”
Thank you to the BU Biology Club!
Angela Hess, Advisor to the BU Biology Club, and officers Olivia Horman and Tyler Carroll brought 4 boxes of food for our patients today! The Biology Club had a fun contest to make holiday ornaments out of lab materials from the students specialty areas, with the entrance fee being 2 donations of non-perishables for CCVIM food bank. Thank you to all the students, and also thanks to Angela, who contacted us through Bette Grey, who is the founder of the club, and the CCVIM founder as well!
Thank you Cierra Earnest of Columbia County 4H
We are thankful for community members like Cierra Earnest, from Columbia County 4H, who showed up today with a big donation of food that we needed for our Thanksgiving Dinner giveaway. We are so grateful that people are making this possible for our patients!
Columbia County Volunteers in Medicine, Inc. 