28-05-2025
Wallace Subaru donates $27k to Crossroads Medical Mission
BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) — A Tri-Cities car dealership gave $27,515 to a non-profit dedicated to providing basic medical care to underserved people.
Wallace Subaru of Bristol presented Crossroads Medical Mission, a free mobile clinic, with the check on Wednesday.
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'This kind of money will provide labs for our patients,' Crossroads Medical Mission Executive Director Erin Faust said. 'Also, incidentally, as you say, the mobile medical clinic behind us, it is actually in need of repair, and it's going this week to finish up some repairs on that. So this is the kind of money that can really help just literally keep us rolling.'
The dealership raised the funds during the annual Subaru Share the Love Campaign. For every new Subaru purchased from Wallace Subaru of Bristol between Nov. 21, 2024 and Jan. 2, 2025, the dealership and Subaru of America donated $375.
Wallace Subaru of Bristol has now donated more than $230,000 to Crossroads Medical Mission in the past decade.
'We really believe in supporting the community health and doing what we can to make a strong community, because we do well in the community as well,' said T.C. Baker, the general manager of Wallace Subaru of Bristol.
Crossroads Medical Mission provided care to 750 patients in 2024, the vast majority of whom were uninsured or underinsured.
'Insurance is expensive,' Faust said. 'And it's hard to decide between paying for insurance or putting food on the table, and so this is just one little way that we can help keep people healthy, hopefully. And, just make lives better.'
'Often, we don't realize until we have an illness or we're in poor health, but without health, we don't have much else,' Baker said. 'So they really are providing a backbone to health care in our community.'
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