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For 39 years, Terry Reilly Health Services has helped fill the gap in health care for people with no insurance.
Back in the 1960s, a conscientious objector from the Vietnam War sought to establish a clinic to help meet the medical needs of the migrant farmworkers whose children he tutored. With the help of a physician named Clarence McIntyre, the CO and his wife established a clinic in the former Square Deal Grocery Store in Nampa - making it literally a storefront facility.
With federal grant resources, as well as help from the local community, a nonprofit corporation called Community Health Clinics Inc. was launched to meet the needs of the medically indigent and grew to encompass not just migrant workers but others, and not just the Nampa community but surrounding towns as well.
The CO's...