Denny Duquette Memorial Clinic

The Denny Duquette Memorial Clinic (The Clinic) is a free clinic and part of Seattle Grace Hospital, opposite the ER. It was established by Miranda Bailey and named in honour of Denny Duquette, Jr., funded by the 8.7 million dollars that he had left to Izzie Stevens as inheritance.

History
Bailey wanted to start a free clinic at SGH, to allow people to have problems seen to early and catch serious disease early, such as cancer. Many, including the senior surgical attendings and Richard Webber, scoffed at this, as this was not even a surgical issue. Sydney Heron believed was a ploy to become Chief Resident.

Bailey did encounter one problem after she had the senior surgical physicians sign on. She had no funding for the clinic. After weeks of having her inheritance check lying around at home, making everyone anxious, Izzie put nearly all the money from the $8.7 million check into the development of the clinic.

In the beginning, the clinic was free with not much success but in Season 4, Bailey told Addison Montgomery that it had begun making money. Bailey originally ran the clinic, but at the end of Season 4, she handed it over to Izzie as she was finding it hard to manage her time between the clinic, her O.R. schedule, her Chief Resident duties, her paperwork, and her family, knowing Izzie was the right person and good hands to leave the clinic in.

Notes and Trivia

 * The clinic has several beds, a private consultation room and is stocked and equipped for primary care.
 * The clinic is, however, not prepared for some medical emergencies. Despite a crash cart present, Cristina Yang was forced to take a patient to the ER following breathing complications from TEN syndrome.
 * Generally, the clinic appears to be staffed by nurses and surgical staff, mostly interns with a few residents, previously Bailey and later Izzie, to supervise, though consideration is taken that the ER is scross the ambulance bay from the clinic.
 * The clinic is where George O'Malley and Callie Torres first announced their marriage.
 * Although the clinic was the object of attention in some Season 3 and 4 episodes of Grey's Anatomy, it remained largely unmentioned and unseen during Season 5, spare for a few episodes.