2023 Annual Report

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Coming Soon! 2024 Annual Report

Bread of Healing Clinic is a finalist for a MANDI Award: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Community Health Award!

The MANDI (Milwaukee Awards for Neighborhood Development Innovation) Awards have been given since 1999, recognizing the work of people and organizations to make Milwaukee a better place to live, learn, work and grow. Bread of Healing is honored to share the nomination with Serenity Inns, an agency providing residential treatment for men facing problems with drug and alcohol. Winners will be announced on August 14, 2925, at Potowatomi Hotel.

Our mission has become even more important with increasing needs in our community. We need to expand our team. We ALWAYS have openings for volunteers:

Spanish Speaking Help

We have a paid translator but could use more translation assistance. We are a free clinic so you don’t need to be a “certified” medical translator. We need help scheduling appointments for patients or calling them with reminders, as well as translation in visits with Spanish-speaking patients.

Social Work Volunteers

Our Social Workers screen every patient who comes to the clinic for social and economic needs. They also do much care management with our patients – coordinating necessary specialist visits, calling to remind patients, and arranging transportation as needed. We have “projects” that would help us expedite our patient care and free up our paid staff to continue their work with patients.

Calling all Dental Staff

We have 2-4 hour shifts for volunteer dentists, hygienists, dental assistants and a coordinator (not specifically dental trained). All could be paid or volunteer. We offer dental services for our uninsured patients. However, finding appropriate people for positions has been difficult, as it has been in much of the dental world. We could use a dentist to perform dental exams, determine treatment plans, create bridge and denture molds, and do extractions. Our current paid dental hygienist is booked out 6 months, so having a dental hygienist (even a few hours a month) would help us reduce that wait time.

We have specific clinics to accommodate appointments for patients with a need to see a specific specialist. We have a need for professional volunteers in the areas of:

Endocrinology: Among our patients we have hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, primary and secondary osteoporosis, diabetes, hyerprolactinemia and hypertriglyceridemia – which makes for a really interesting patient base! There is much that primary care physicians can manage in all of this, but we need consultative care!

Podiatry: Our patients are on their feet for hours every day. Bunions, corns, warts, diabetic foot infections. We need a podiatrist!

Primary Care: 4 hr shifts, week day mornings, afternoons, or evenings. A full cadre of staff is available to care for patients in nursing, phlebotomy, social work, behavioral health during volunteer times.

If interested, please Email: office@breadofhealing.org

Free Clinic. Integrative Medicine.

The Bread of Healing Clinic is a free medical clinic designed to serve low-income people who experience barriers to accessing ongoing health care. We are a unique faith-based collaboration that directly addresses a crucial human need. Please click here for clinic locations, hours, and contact information.

Our three clinic locations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provide:

free, high-quality medical, dental, vision, and behavioral health care for people with chronic illnesses who do not have access to health insurance.
an environment of education for patients and for volunteers to learn more about the treatment of chronic illnesses in patients who most often experience disparities in care.
opportunities to experience, request, and offer healing for all of us (patient, provider, volunteer).
health care for patients in between health insurance coverages.

We believe that health is:

An issue of faith, for Jesus was continuously engaged in the work of healing.
An issue of social justice, a right that belongs to all people, regardless of ability to pay.
An issue of wholeness in the physical, spiritual, emotional and social wellbeing of individuals.

God calls us to healing in every arena of human life, and we seek to respond to that call in this ministry.

Please click here to learn about our position on medical services for immigrants.

Our Origins...

The Bread of Healing Clinic began as a ministry of Cross Lutheran Church, established with the support of community partners (UW-Madison Medical School, Aurora Health Care, other local churches). It continues now as a separately incorporated organization, holding clinics at three locations: Cross Lutheran Church, Eastbrook Church, and Traveler’s Rest Ministry.

The name Bread of Healing comes from Ecclesiastes 11:1, which invites the reader to: "Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days."

Maya Angelou writes further: "When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream, whose face we may never see, will benefit from our action, even as we enjoy the fruits sent to us from a donor upstream."

All of us at the Bread of Healing Clinic are committed to achieving health, not simply eliminating illness. For us, health is an issue of social justice, a right that belongs to all people... not a commodity to be "delivered" on the basis of finances.

We share all that we have in the hope of healing, in the hope of moving all of us (patients and providers and volunteers) toward wholeness. None of us can be in full health without sharing the burdens of other people's illness. When we share those burdens, the pain and illness is no longer paralyzing. All of us are empowered.