Randy Stacey

Randy Stacey discovered the natural world, and its annual flocks of migrating ducks, growing up on the shores of Lake Michigan. In January of 2016, when his wife Cynthia retired, he entered retirement.

His work with Gainesville’s homeless population began in 1989, when Helping Hands Clinic emerged. He retired in 2003 from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Gainesville, Florida.

During his time at the VA hospital he provided management of clinical services.

VA hospital health professionals collaborated to start the clinic, and Randy had been its unpaid Executive Director. He nurtured its early years, including 15 years of weekly Monday night clinics in Gainesville’s Salvation Army Lodge. Then, in 2005, he helped move the clinic, first to a temporary space at First United Methodist Church, and again in 2013, to a leased space there, in Selle Hall. Now, HHC provides expanded services: two clinics plus a women’s health program.

While Randy began to share the leadership role within the clinic, a strong core of volunteers provided health care and related services to Gainesville’s most needy members.