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SMLC growing in staff, outreach

January 24, 2025 10:55 am | By Dan McWilliams

St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic hints at new headquarters, mobile van in next year By Dan McWilliams The St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic has expanded its staff in recent months as it seeks to fulfill its mission of extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ to rural East Tennessee. SMLC’s 40-foot mobile medical clinic van provides health care to the medically underserved as it makes stops each month throughout the diocese in Crab Orchard, Crossville, Washburn, Decatur, Rutledge, Athens, Helenwood, Gatlinburg, and Pigeon Forge. The clinic also provides services once a month at its headquarters at Divine Mercy Church in Knoxville. On the horizon for the clinic are a new 45-foot medical van and a new office building at Divine Mercy. Executive director Martin Vargas said the clinic staff has added two Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Mich., Sister Marie de Paul Stokes as patient navigator and Sister Maliya Grace Suen... Read more →