Providing Occupational Therapy in a Free Primary Care Clinic
Free primary care clinics serve the nearly 30 million Americans who are unable to afford health care insurance, or who went from no insurance to being underinsured after the passing of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, based on what they could afford to purchase (Bakalar, 2017). Americans often think that free primary care clinics only serve individuals who are homeless, displaced, or unemployed. However, free primary care clinics serve many additional people who have homes, are integrated