How We Created the Diebel Legacy Fund’s KNIGHTS Clinic

The Diebel Family’s grandchildren have all shared the same pediatrician—Dr. Marvin Hardy. In 2008, we learned that Dr. Hardy was leaving his private practice to co-found Grace Medical Home. Several years later, the Diebel Legacy Fund was approached about funding a medical mission trip for local medical students to go to the Dominican Republic. We agreed on the condition that those medical students participate in medical mission work right here in Central Florida.

Through our partnership with Grace Medical Home, and the Diebel Family’s relationship with Dr. Hardy, we were able to sketch the broad strokes of what would become the Diebel Legacy Fund’s KNIGHTS Clinic. We enlisted the help of the faculty at UCF’s College of Medicine to create what is now an operating clinic.
The Diebel Legacy Fund’s KNIGHTS Clinic operates 12 to 18 nights per year, and serves the patients on Grace Medical Home’s waiting list. Medical Students operate the clinic, under the supervision of their faculty mentors. This program is our way of actively creating More Doctors Like Don, while also serving the medical needs of our community’s uninsured patients.