Sticking with Medical news, a faith led nonprofit in Lexington is celebrating 20 years of providing health care services to adults who don't have health insurance.

Mission Health Lexington has been changing lives with the help of volunteer medical professionals.

The goal is to provide comprehensive services and make things more accessible for people.

People who are coming here are living paycheck to paycheck, don't know where their next meal is going to come from, may have difficulty accessing transportation to get here.

So we want to make health care completely accessible for people who need us the most.

Calvary Baptist Church across the street from our clinic, they went on a mission trip to Arlington, Texas, and there they volunteered at an organization called Mission Arlington.

And that inspired them to come back and really dig deep and see what this community needed.

And from that, they found that dental care was a huge need.

Dental care is incredibly expensive.

A lot of times, if you're choosing between medical care and dental care, you're going to choose medical over dental.

And so a lot of people in our community needed help, couldn't afford it, and needed access to resources.

So Calvary partnered with some other local churches here in town, and they launched our first clinic.

So we have a volunteer cardiologist.

We've got an endocrinologist, we've got a gynecologist.

And so that allows us to dig a little deeper in the care that we can provide.

So from dental then we added medical services.

A few years ago we added Vision Services and then an organization called Faith pharmacy.

And it was amazing because then our patients that were here for medical care could then come to our pharmacy to fill the prescriptions for free.

When you go and a drug is incredibly expensive and you're sticker shock, but you've got to pay it because you're sick and that's the only way you're going to get well.

Well, that's not a choice for a lot of our patients.

They need medications in order to live, but they can't afford them.

And so being able to get them for free here means that is a chance to get better.

And that is a chance to get healthier and to improve their chronic conditions to, you know, lose weight, to get their diabetes under control, to get their high blood pressure lowered so that other chronic conditions don't come about as a result of, you know, undiagnosed and untreated conditions.

It is more often than not, we will see tears when people get dentures.

They've not had teeth for decades, or they have battled very, very, very terrible dental disease for decades.

They haven't been to the dentist in years.

And they come here, we're able to do oral surgery here.

We are able to help them get fitted for dentures and to have, like to restore a smile is the most incredible thing.

And that's truly the most invisible change that you can see in the care that we provide.

Obviously glasses is another thing too.

We are so fortunate that, doctor Don Stratton with Stratton eyes, donates every single pair of lenses and frames for every patient who's in need here.

And so they come here for an annual eye exam.

We're able to fill their prescription here.

They get glasses for free.

So we're at the tail end of celebrating our 20th year.

I think it's a really incredible accomplishment to see where we started and how much we've grown, and to know that we are truly saving lives every single day.

I'm really proud of all that we have done in the community, and that we continue to do because of these incredible volunteers that gave us their heart and time.

There are a total of four clinics that see about 600 unique patients every year.