In Clark County, more than 5,200 residents owe $9.1 million in such debt. Now, however, community leaders and organizations have launched the Clark County Medical Debt Relief Campaign to help these citizens.
“We want to see people relieved of debt that’s a burden so we can help them have a better life,” said Kristy Kohl McCready, president of the Mercy Health Foundation for Clark and Champaign counties. “We’re trying to get people out of poverty so they have a chance to have homes, to have a car so they can get back and forth to work.”
The campaign has partnered with regional think tank The Collaboratory, which in turn has teamed with the national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt as part of The Collaboratory’s Community of…