2023 Annual Report
Looking for Help!
Part-time Paid Position: Operations Manager (20 hrs/week)
Responsibilities
Day-to-day operations of 3 clinics
Develop efficient workflows for administrative work, assist in clinical workflows as appropriate and as needed
Maintain clinic statistics (# of appts, # of patients, demographics of patients served, etc.) and official documents
Assist the office manager with purchases, as needed
Coordinate volunteers and maintain staffing schedules with staff, volunteers, students
Oversee budget
Assist in maintaining community relationships and partnerships.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree from accredited university
Management experience (2+ years)
Strong organizational experience, particularly in not-for-profit environments
Awareness of health care trends, education and/or experience in health care preferred
Sensitivity to unique experiences of uninsured patients in the health care arena
Cultural awareness and cultural humility
Ability to work in a team environment, working collaboratively with other staff
Submit resume to: office@breadofhealing.org
Part-time Paid Accountant (10-15 hrs/week)
Responsibilities
Weekly responsibility for donation recording, deposit preparations, and check requests
Log donations in Donor Perfect, record deposits to appropriate class in Quickbooks Online
Document invoices, assign to classes, prepare checks, pay consultants
Prepare payroll delivery (direct deposit biweekly)
Monthly reconciliation of 2 checking accounts, 1 Money Market account, and credit card transactions.
Monthly/quarterly invoices to vendors (hospital systems, State of Wisconsin)
Member of Finance Committee of the Board of Directors
Preparation for Audit
Qualifications
Accounting degree and experience, CPA preferred
Not-for-profit experience preferred
Quickbooks online experience
Detail oriented individual
Budget management and budget development experience
Understanding of and commitment to serving vulnerable populations
Submit resume to: office@breadofhealing.org
Our mission has become even more important and we need to expand our team. We ALWAYS have openings for volunteers:
Spanish Speaking Help
We have a paid translator but could use more translation assistance. We are a free clinic so you don’t need to be a “certified” medical translator. We need help scheduling appointments for patients or calling them with reminders.
Social Work Volunteers
Our Social Workers screen every patient who comes to the clinic for social and economic needs. They also do much care management with our patients – coordinating necessary specialist visits, calling to remind patients, and arranging transportation as needed. We have “projects” that would help us expedite our patient care and free up our paid staff to continue their work with patients.
Calling all Dental Staff
We have 2-4 hour shifts for volunteer dentists, hygienists, dental assistants and a coordinator (not specifically dental trained). All could be paid or volunteer. We offer dental services for our uninsured patients. However, finding appropriate people for positions has been difficult, as it has been in much of the dental world. We could use a dentist to perform dental exams, determine treatment plans, create bridge and denture molds, and do extractions. Our current paid dental hygienist is booked out 6 months, so having a dental hygienist (even a few hours a month) would help us reduce that wait time.
We have specific clinics to accommodate appointments for patients with a need to see a specific specialist. We have a need for professional volunteers in the areas of:
Endocrinology: Among our patients we have hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, primary and secondary osteoporosis, diabetes, hyerprolactinemia and hypertriglyceridemia – which makes for a really interesting patient base! There is much that primary care physicians can manage in all of this, but we need consultative care!
Podiatry: We have one volunteer who comes to the clinic but his practice has expanded so he is less available. We have a wait-list to see him and could make inroads into that list with a second or third volunteer.
Primary Care: 4 hr shifts, week day morning, afternoon, evening. A full cadre of staff is available to care for patients in nursing, phlebotomy, social work, behavioral health during volunteer times.
If interested, please Email: office@breadofhealing.org
Free Clinic. Integrative Medicine.
The Bread of Healing Clinic is a free medical clinic designed to serve low-income people who experience barriers to accessing ongoing health care. We are a unique faith-based collaboration that directly addresses a crucial human need. Please click here for clinic locations, hours, and contact information.
Our three clinic locations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provide:
free, high-quality medical, dental, vision, and behavioral health care for people with chronic illnesses who do not have access to health insurance.
an environment of education for patients and for volunteers to learn more about the treatment of chronic illnesses in patients who most often experience disparities in care.
opportunities to experience, request, and offer healing for all of us (patient, provider, volunteer).
health care for patients in between health insurance coverages.
We believe that health is:
An issue of faith, for Jesus was continuously engaged in the work of healing.
An issue of social justice, a right that belongs to all people, regardless of ability to pay.
An issue of wholeness in the physical, spiritual, emotional and social wellbeing of individuals.
God calls us to healing in every arena of human life, and we seek to respond to that call in this ministry.
Please click here to learn about our position on medical services for immigrants.
Our Origins...
The Bread of Healing Clinic began as a ministry of Cross Lutheran Church, established with the support of community partners (UW-Madison Medical School, Aurora Health Care, other local churches). It continues now as a separately incorporated organization, holding clinics at three locations: Cross Lutheran Church, Eastbrook Church, and Traveler’s Rest Ministry.
The name Bread of Healing comes from Ecclesiastes 11:1, which invites the reader to: "Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days."
Maya Angelou writes further: "When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream, whose face we may never see, will benefit from our action, even as we enjoy the fruits sent to us from a donor upstream."
All of us at the Bread of Healing Clinic are committed to achieving health, not simply eliminating illness. For us, health is an issue of social justice, a right that belongs to all people... not a commodity to be "delivered" on the basis of finances.
We share all that we have in the hope of healing, in the hope of moving all of us (patients and providers and volunteers) toward wholeness. None of us can be in full health without sharing the burdens of other people's illness. When we share those burdens, the pain and illness is no longer paralyzing. All of us are empowered.
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