PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Today’s everyday hero is making sure that residents in Pinellas County get the help and care they need.

And it’s something that happens more than a million times a year at the St. Petersburg Free Clinic.

In fact, the clinic is so busy, the organization recently secured a new administrative office that includes a 28,000 square-foot warehouse.

Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Yeagley said the clinic has provided medical care to thousands of Pinellas County residents for the past 53 years.

“We provide primary care for people who have income or some resources so they don’t qualify for services like Medicaid,” Yeagley said. “But they also cannot afford or don’t have access to employee sponsored plans or other type of health insurance.”

But there is much more than that, feeding some 30,000 people each month.

Yeagley said the new warehouse would go a long way to help the clinic with its mission.

“For now, we have food set up, so if you come in when our volunteers are here, this is a bit of an assembly line,” she said. “And we’re putting together family packs of self-stable food that goes out to various partners and the families that we serve.”

The organization’s volunteers are its backbone. About 260 volunteers in all areas give of their time every month.

Volunteers are always needed, as is community financial support.

“As an organization we literally cannot open up our doors and do what we do every day without the support of our volunteers,” Yeagley said.

The list of services goes on, including client advocates assisting in areas like helping people pay water bills, getting driver’s licenses and tracking down birth certificates.

The work never stops for Yeagley, who has been with the organization for three years.

Based on day-to-day visits, 1.2 million people came through the doors and were helped last year alone.