By Annie Berman

Updated: 20 minutes ago Published: 42 minutes ago

Dozens of nurses, optometrists, dentists and medical doctors will be at the O’Malley Sports Center in Anchorage this weekend supplying healthcare exams, new glasses, vaccines, teeth cleanings and other solutions — all totally free of charge.

The occasion is sponsored by the Mountain View Lions Club Foundation with assist from a national nonprofit, Remote Region Health-related. It starts at six a.m. Saturday and Sunday, and runs till about five p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.

No wellness insurance coverage, or even an ID, is necessary to access the clinic solutions, stated Anchorage optometrist Patrick Campaign, who helped bring the occasion to the city as a way to address the higher charges of wellness care about the state.

The clinic will offer you routine key care, dental and vision exams, glasses that are produced on web-site for persons with a prescription, blood and lab function and STI screenings, Campaign stated.

The nonprofit has also partnered with Providence Overall health Foundation, the Alaska Division of Overall health and the Alaska Mental Overall health Trust Authority to offer you vaccines and assist accessing mental and behavioral wellness specialists and sources on web-site.

Remote Region Health-related Solutions was founded in 1985 with the aim of bringing totally free wellness care solutions domestically, and has served more than 900,000 individuals considering the fact that its inception.

The clinic is 1st come, 1st served, and involves additional than wellness care one hundred providers.

The nonprofit will also offer you a related pop-up clinic in Fairbanks from April 22 to 23 at Ryan Middle College.

The Anchorage wellness clinic will be held at 11051 O’Malley Centre Drive, from six a.m. to five p.m. Saturday, April 15, and six a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, April 16. Stroll-ins only.