The foundation's grant, in addition to allowing us to provide translation and interpretation for these patients, also will allow us to assess other patient needs, such as food, housing, enrolling children in school and other social services. The Kerr Family Health Center began serving indigent patients who do not qualify for Medicare or Medicaid in the Atlanta metropolitan area in 1995. Using more than 50 volunteer dentists, doctors, nurses and other volunteers, the center serves 3,000 patients a year. It is the only clinic of its kind serving Rockdale and Newton counties. It is gratifying to know that this grant will help meet a critical need for so many people in this community.
Allegiance operates four distribution centers in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
In Norcross, Allegiance operates a distribution center from which it delivers medical and surgical products to hospitals in Georgia and parts of Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina. Allegiance also operates a distribution center in Stone Mountain that provides laboratory products to clinical laboratories in the same geography. In Morrow, the company has a distribution center that houses Baxter intravenous solutions and dialysis products. Finally, Allegiance's facility in College Park primarily supports physician offices, long-term care facilities and nursing homes. The Baxter Allegiance Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Allegiance Corporation, based in McGaw Park, Illinois, and Baxter International, based in Deerfield, Illinois.