The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) announced Friday that it will be opening a “Doc on the Spot” Community Care Clinic in Orrville beginning Friday, May 3.

The clinic will provide localized health care services to the community, which currently has to travel to Selma to see a doctor or visit a hospital.

“I am pleased to bring ‘Doc on the Spot’ to rural Alabama and specifically to the Orrville community,” said Tiffany Maycoc, Program Director of the UAB Selma Family Medicine Residency Program. “UAB Family Medicine had a presence in Orrville in the past. It is great to be able to return and provide health services again.”

Residents in the UAB Family Medicine program care for patients in a number of rural clinic settings, including hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and home visits, as part of their three-year training course.

Further, they work with the “Doc on the Spot” program to work with rural patients in need of exams and assistance.“This is an exciting program that will meet the needs of Orrville, Alabama, an area that is in need of more primary care,” said Irfan Asif, Chair of the UAB Department of Family and Community Medicine. “The UAB Selma Family Medicine Residency Program is doing great work and their creativity will ultimately lead to better health outcomes in our state.”

Tiffany Osborne, Director of Community Engagement for the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, has been working with Orrville residents for some time and says communities like Orrville are in desperate need of access to health services.

“We know that Orrville needs this clinic,” Osborne said. “This was validated in a community needs assessment done by the Orrville Building Health Communities Coalition in one of its first activities.”

The first clinic day for uninsured patients in Orrville will take place at 7333 County Road 33 at the Five Points Community Development Center and run from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.

No appointment is necessary and patients are encouraged to bring all medicines they are currently taking to the doctors at the clinic.

For more information, contact Annette Davis at 334-526-2144.