Medical Home for Special Children, Adults Opens in Belleville

The new Central Pennsylvania Clinic – A Medical Home for Special Children and Adults – in Belleville, Mifflin County, opened for business in May.

Dedication of the new clinic building took place on Friday, May 17.

Dr. Holmes Morton made a generous donation of $10,000 to the construction fund for the purchase of black walnut and white ash logs. The logs were cut by David's Saw Mill to build cabinets, furniture, shelves, and doors in the new clinic building. The logs were bought as a reminder of a patient who they called sweet Anna Mae. She passed after a mysterious heart failure.

Dr. Morton and his family were present at the dedication.

The gray-stained building is large, but Dr Morton predicts in 10 years it will seem small. All the rooms are made of wood in very different combinations. The floors have a lot of white Ash on them. Ceiling pine and sheet rock were installed in the upper level.

Clinic services will include a dental office, physical and occupational therapy and vision and hearing labs. The upper level has a 60-person meeting room, space for visiting doctors, nurses, scientists, and students to work while training and conducting research at the clinic, and a medical and genealogy library.

The sixth annual Belleville Benefit Dinner for the Central Pennsylvania Clinic was held on May 17. The annual Belleville Auction was held on May 18.

Additional benefit auctions and dinners that are scheduled to support the work of the Central Pennsylvania Clinic include:

• 3:30 to 7 p.m. July 15, McAlisterville dinner, Juniata County

• 4 to 7 p.m. Aug. 2, Oakland dinner, Maryland

• 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 14, Morrisons Cove Produce Auction, Roaring Spring

Donations are needed to cover 80 percent of the clinic's operating budget, estimated at $1,483,650 for 2019. The budget anticipates the hiring of additional medical staff members for the clinic.