The premier honor for small businesses in the Salt Lake area. Categories include Community Service, Entrepreneurial Success, Minority Small Business, and Small Business of the Year
2008
Community Service Award - Fourth Street Clinic
In 1987, Allan Ainsworth, PhD, Fourth Street Clinic's founder and executive director, was driving in Salt Lake City and saw a long line of people waiting for food and other social services. He thought to himself that no one should ever have to wait in line for basic life necessities.
With the help of the Stuart B. McKinney Act, one year later Ainsworth founded Wasatch Homeless Health Care, Inc. (WHHC), a place where those living in homelessness could receive free, primary health care services and make the first steps towards a better life.
WHHC began as a one-room operation staffed by Ainsworth and one part-time nurse. In 1993, the clinic moved to its current location and reopened as the Fourth Street Clinic. Now 37 medical and behavioral health professionals, support staff and administration personnel are employed by the clinic. Fourth Street also partners with more than 210 community medical specialists and oversees more than 30 in-house volunteer medical professionals to provide pharmacy services, primary health care and operate specialty clinics. In 2001, a no-cost, on-site pharmacy was opened; in 2004, Fourth Street began to actively place long-term patients into permanent housing. In 2007, more than 5,700 patients made Fourth Street Clinic their medical home.
Award sponsored by:
From Left to right: ; Lane Beattie,
Salt Lake Chamber; Tiia Libin, Fourth Street Clinic; Gov. Jon M.
Huntsman; Brandon Rees, Sprint/ Nextel
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