Tickets on Sale for HRC Annual Auction

12/13/2019

Tickets are on sale now for the Saint Louis University Health Resource Center’s (HRC) Annual Auction. The auction supports the student-staffed clinic’s efforts to serve more than 2,000 St. Louis patients who lack access to a doctor.

Students work with a patient at the HRC.

Students talk with a patient at the Health Resource Center (HRC). Photo by Steve Dolan

This year’s auction will be held Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, in the Wool Ballroom, Busch Student Center. The festivities begin at 5 p.m. and run through 10 p.m. The auction is an event for those 21 and older. It features silent and live auctions, a catered dinner, music by talented medical students in the Musicians in Medicine group and an open bar.

Tickets will be on sale through the Office of Alumni and Donor Engagement beginning in December 2019.

Tickets are available for $35 for students and residents, for $65 for general admission and for $600 for a table of eight.

All proceeds from tickets and the auction go to the HRC’s operating costs.

About the HRC

In 1994, SLU medical student Marsha McBride approached SLUCare geriatrician John Morley, M.D., with a vision of providing weekend healthcare to St. Louisans with no access to a doctor. Embodying the Jesuit commitment to service, she and her colleagues undertook the challenges of laying a new foundation, finding a place in St. Augustine’s Catholic Church and transforming the church basement into a space to welcome patients.

That year, a small group of students under the supervision of Morley cared for the first six patients of what would become an enduring free clinic, SLU’s Health Resource Center (HRC).

In the years that followed, the HRC expanded. The clinic outgrew the church basement and moved to its current location in the Victor Roberts building in North St. Louis, where more than 2,000 patients are seen each year.

Clinic services have expanded to incorporate physical therapy, social work, behavioral therapy and numerous specialty clinics. Over the years, in addition to medical students, nurse practitioner and physician assistant students have come together to allow the HRC to be open more frequently. Since its founding, the clinic’s two fundamental tenets have not changed – the HRC it is run by students and all medical services are provided at no charge to patients.

The HRC’s work and ability to carry out its mission are made possible by the support of the SLU and St. Louis communities.