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In early 2010 Samaritan's Touch planned to open a clinic in Lake Placid. Diana Furr, then executive director of the clinic, said 15% of the patients seen at the
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Healthgrades website provides very little information on Samaritan's Touch. It provides only one patient survey and that was on Dr. Pena. Similarly, the Vitals website provided little information on the organization. It, too, had only one patient survey and it, too, was for Dr. Pena. Since
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Samaritan's Touch apparently had its beginnings in 2006 and, according to the NonProfiFacts.com website, became a charitable organization in March 2007. The
Sebring clinic opened in May 2007 and has always been at the Herring Avenue location, just across the street from the Sebring
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customer service center. Samaritan's Touch was organized to provide healthcare services to those who cannot afford any type of health care. Highlands County has a large number of persons who do not have work or do work, but make little more than the
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donated more than $ 1.5 million in diagnostic imaging, laboratory services and outpatient services to
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