The New York Times reports on the financial travails of a Milwaukee clinic that provides the only full-time urgent-care option in its largely African-American neighborhood.

Facing foreclosure filings, lost H.M.O. contracts, and other difficulties, the nonprofit Milwaukee Immediate Care Center has teetered on the brink of insolvency for years. Patient visits have dropped to 7,000 a month, from 15,000 three years ago, and its medical staff has been cut.

The center’s president, Perry Margolyes, said the clinic remained open this month thanks to a board member’s loan and might be too far gone financially to reap any benefit from health-care overhaul efforts aimed at strengthening local clinics.

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