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St. Mary's Legacy Clinic celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by entering the clinic and its volunteers and staff in the 2023 Knox St. Patrick’s Day Parade!  As you can see below, we had a blast walking in the parade to get the word out about St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic.

In December, while many children were dreaming of what they might receive for Christmas, the junior varsity basketball team at St. Joseph School in Knoxville was only dreaming about how they could give back. The JV team donated the proceeds form a fund raising game to the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic. After learning about the great work of the mobile medical clinic, the boys decided that half of the evening’s proceeds should go straight to the clinic. This donation helps to assist the clinic in its charitable mission to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ throughout East Tennessee.

By all accounts, volunteers are the lifeblood of St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic’s medical ministry. Our volunteers make sure every patient has a positive experience in the face of health issues that affect many uninsured people in the rural Appalachia communities of East Tennessee.

The Catholic Medical Association Guild allows medical professionals to have fellowship with like-minded individuals, grow in their knowledge of the faith, and support upcoming medical professionals such as medical and nursing students going through training.

Catholic Charities, St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic partner to provide health care in Scott Co. Catholic Charities of East Tennessee and St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic are partnering on a unique ministry that provides a shot in the arm to health care in Scott County, which has joined the ranks of rural areas where the dedicated practice of medicine is at risk.

HELENWOOD, Tenn. (WATE) — SMLC and Catholic Charities is filling in the gaps in rural Scott County after noticing healthcare shortages in the region. Saint Mary’s Legacy Clinic, a mobile medical mission, will now be offering its services in Scott County thanks to a partnership with Catholic Charities. The clinic offers a range of primary care services including treatment plans provided by health care professionals, prescriptions, laboratory work and more. In addition, Catholic Charities just opened a new pregnancy help center in Helenwood. The center will help with pregnancy testing and adoption options, along with providing diapers, formula and even cribs to parents in need.

Church of Divine Mercy in Knoxville and Helenwood Pregnancy Help Center in Scott County are the newest sites for St. Mary's Legacy Clinic.

The expo will include several informational booths and the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic, which will be onsite Saturday, Aug. 20. “We’re going to provide some health screenings for glucose and blood pressure, and we will also be available to offer mental health screening,” said clinic executive director Martin Vargas.

The Lumen Christi Award is Catholic Extension’s highest honor given to people who radiate and reveal the light of Christ present in the communities where they serve. This year, 40 dioceses submitted nominations for the award. Each nomination celebrates the humble heroes who powerfully impact others through their actions, leadership and faithfulness. Seven of the 40 nominees were chosen as award finalists.

Out of all the Catholic churches in the state of Tennessee, writer Daniel Markham chose to visit St. John Paul II Catholic Mission in Rutledge. One element in particular attracted him to the Diocese of Knoxville: the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic. In his research for Tennessee, Mr. Markham came across the mobile clinic and “knew that was something that would make a good subject” for his upcoming book, 52 Masses.

To illustrate the continuing legacy of St. Mary’s ministry in the community, the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic and its staff were on hand when the city of Knoxville and mayor Indya Kincannon gathered hundreds of city and Knox County officials for the annual state of the city address at the site of the old St. Mary's Hospital.

This year’s volunteer appreciation Mass and luncheon for the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic cast a wide net on its past efforts and current accomplishments and touched briefly on future goals of the mobile health-care ministry, which has been rolling into medically underserved communities in East Tennessee since 2014.

The St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic has named Martin P. Vargas as its executive director. Also joining the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic is Sister Mary Luke Feldpausch, RSM, who is serving as a clinic assistant and special projects volunteer for the clinic.

An open house and fundraiser May 8 at the clinic’s home site at Divine Mercy Church in West Knoxville served to call attention to the clinic and its desire for a new mobile medical van.

The people of Crab Orchard are men and women made in the image of God. That’s why the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma come to Crab Orchard, with doctors and nurses joining them. They come in a mobile medical clinic, to treat chronic illnesses or long-festering wounds for patients without insurance or the money for a doctor.

Sister Mary Lisa Renfer, RSM, DO, is the new medical director of the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic. Sister Mary Lisa succeeds Sister Mariana Koonce, RSM, MD, who was the clinic’s medical director since its founding by the bishop in 2013.

Our Crab Orchard Clinics will now be located at Crab Orchard Christian Church.