It provides primary free medical health and dental services to low-income and uninsured individuals.

The Burnstein free clinic faces strong demand due to high unemployment in Michigan.

[3] In 1997, Dr. Gary Burnstein, a cardiologist, started caring for patients from a local shelter in Pontiac, Michigan.

His family took up his goal of providing healthcare access to the uninsured and founded the Dr. Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic in October 2004.

After a little over a year of fundraising and design, construction began on the new facility in October 2014, and the clinic moved into its new space in February 2015.