Ogden health clinic geared to people without insurance moves, plans to expand offerings

OGDEN — An Ogden health clinic geared to the uninsured and underinsured has moved to a much larger facility as it prepares to bolster the number of people it can serve.

The new Seager Memorial Clinic site, inaugurated on Wednesday, is nearly 10 times as big as the prior space in the basement of the Ogden Rescue Mission. The move, said Jerika Mays, the clinic’s executive director, is “going to allow us to expand our impact.”

She said the clinic, which has served homeless people from the Ogden Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter, and others in need, plans to expand its hours of operation with the move and launch mental health counseling. The clinic, created in 1988, provides free medical, dental and vision care as well as pharmacy services, and it has averaged 2,700 visits a year, mostly fr