While demand continues to grow for OSHaRE’s free meal program in downtown Owen Sound, a health-care room has opened to serve homeless people and others there. Article content

Dr. Lizebeth Cox and a nurse see patients in this community health room Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A number of other programs and services have been running out of the same room by others since January. Article content

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These include Supportive Outreach Services, or SOS homeless outreach group, the Canadian Mental Health Association and Brightshores Health System.

There are no clear guidelines on who may attend the clinic, which is “primarily focused on the homeless and/or housing insecure population in Owen Sound for episodic care,” Cox said in a texted response to questio

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