9 A.M. EDT, May 23^rd 2,011

Contact: Erica Serrano

Phone: 240 499 2620

Community Clinic to dedicate a new WIC Services Center in Wheaton, MD

Rockville, MD May 23^rd, 2011:

Community Clinic, Inc.

With a gathering of local, State and National officials, Community Clinic, Inc. will dedicate their new WIC Services Center in Wheaton, MD on June 1^st, 2011 at 1:00 pm. Guests will be addressed by The Honorable Frances B. Phillips, RN, MHA, Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services for Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

WIC is a federally funded program that provides healthy foods and nutrition counseling to pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children under age five. The program has an extraordinary 30-year record of preventing children’s health problems and improving their long term health, growth and development.

Community Clinic, Inc. administers the largest WIC program in Maryland, serving 31.000 women, infants and children under age five considered nutritionally at risk in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties at their seven WIC Services Centers.

Besides the nutritional benefits, Community Clinic, Inc. offers its clients health services, including: primary care, immunizations, well- and sick-care, mental health counseling, diabetes education and family planning; CCI patients and WIC participants and their families can also receive dental care at a recently opened dental suite in Gaithersburg, MD. 

Conveniently located in the heart of Wheaton, at the Westfield Wheaton Mall, the new Community Clinic, Inc. WIC Services Center will better serve an extensive and populous area formerly served at the White Flint and Aspen Hill locations, with nearly 10,000 WIC participants. The new Community Clinic, Inc. WIC Services Center is located at an ample, newly renovated site, near the Wheaton metro/bus station.

About Community Clinic, Inc.

Community Clinic, Inc. is a private, non for profit, community health center providing quality primary care, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition services, and other health-related services to medically under-served persons; promoting improved access to health care services in a non-discriminatory manner, sensitive to the needs of the community and the dignity of every individual.