Transit authority adds additional routes for November pop-up clinic
The Butler Transit Authority will provide additional bus runs for the Remote Area Medical clinic on Nov. 11, and the buses will loop through Butler Intermediate High School, where the clinic is taking place, on their routes.
The Butler Transit Authority board agreed at a meeting Tuesday, Oct. 17, to add two stops to the Route 5 schedule that Saturday, after the administrators of the pop-up medical clinic made the request.
John Paul, executive director of the Butler Transit Authority, said the service normally has four routes that start as early as 8:25 a.m. and continue until 12:13 p.m., and the additional routes will extend the route runs until around 2 p.m.
“We’ll deviate up into the intermediate high school for service ... The Butler Area School District did approve BTA being on-site for the clinic,” Paul said Tuesday. “This is the first time for this, as far as I know.”
The Remote Area Medical clinic takes place on Nov. 11 and 12 at Butler Intermediate High School, and organizers expect it will bring free care to the more than 8,000 uninsured individuals living in Butler County. The Butler Transit Authority typically doesn’t offer service on Sundays.
Lynn McKinnis, leader of the community host group for Remote Area Medical, said the clinic is getting support from the Jean B. Purvis Community Health Center, Independence Health System, VA Butler Healthcare and the Center for Community Resources. Additionally, the Butler school district is donating the use of the intermediate high school for the clinic.
