A community clinic is a grassroots health-care site created by or with a community to provide accessible care under conditions where ordinary systems are absent, inaccessible, or untrusted [@commonground2024].
Within emergent disaster response, the term matters because care often has to be rebuilt locally rather than awaited from distant systems. Common Ground’s clinic and later community-based disability response show that a clinic can function as both immediate health support and as infrastructure for continued participation in survival and recovery [@commonground2024; @kennedy2021].
Related terms
- Care Infrastructure in Emergent Disaster Response - a research text on clinics, kitchens, and wellness centers
- Wellness Center - a related care form that can extend beyond medical treatment into broader support
- Disability-Inclusive Grassroots Disaster Response - a text on care and survival beyond able-bodied norms