The free clinic

Good Samaritan Medical Mission

A free clinic in the town of Pilar. For many patients, it is the first medical care they have ever had.

Chip Nuttall checks a girl's oxygen level with a finger clip

What the clinic does

A clinic worker takes a blood pressure reading while families wait at the table

Clinic days

Check-ups, small procedures, and medicine to take home.

Families and clinic staff at a table under a tent at a traveling clinic

Traveling clinics

Visiting doctors and volunteers set up in towns around the island.

The passenger ferry at the pier

Getting to a hospital

When someone needs a specialist, we help arrange the trip and go with them.

Back to school, the field or the fishing boat.

That is the goal for every patient. When one person in a family is sick, the whole household feels it.

Two clinic nurses examine a boy at the clinic
Volunteers hand out medicine at a table of bottles
A visiting doctor listens to a child's chest at the clinic
Rhome Nuttall and a young patient smile at the clinic
Rhome Nuttall
Chip Nuttall

Started by Chip and Rhome Nuttall

Rhome grew up on the island. Chip spent his career as a physician assistant. In 2006 they moved to Pilar and opened the clinic in their own home.

The clinic, year by year

  1. 2006

    A clinic opens at home

    Rhome grew up in Pilar. Chip spent his career as a physician assistant. They move to the island and start seeing patients in their own house.

  2. 2015
    A clinician looks in a boy's ear while a volunteer and the boy's mother watch

    Visitors join the clinic days

    Friends from Virginia come to help: blood pressure, ears, blood sugar.

  3. 2016

    EVACE begins

    Friends in Virginia start EVACE to pay for medicine and staff, so Chip and Rhome can spend their time with patients.

  4. 2017
    Rhome Nuttall and a volunteer enter a patient's details on a tablet

    Patient records move to tablets

    On a medical mission, volunteers sign patients in on tablets while the nurses and Rhome see families.

  5. 2018
    A mother holds her baby at the clinic

    An everyday clinic

    Check-ups, blood pressure and babies, all year round, with local nurses.

  6. 2019
    Families and clinic staff at a table under a tent at a traveling clinic

    The clinic travels

    A tent, a table of medicine and a team of volunteers set up in villages around the island.

  7. 2024
    Two nurses take a patient's blood pressure while families wait behind them

    Clinic days today

    The clinic's nurses run a busy day.

  8. 2026

    Ten years of EVACE

An adult learner types at a laptop in the container classroom
A clinic nurse talks with a family

Help keep the clinic stocked.

Medicine is needed every month, so monthly gifts help the most.

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