Success Stories by Topic: Health insurance and uninsured

• Central Missouri Health Care Outreach (CeMo)
  July 2009
  The project opened a sister clinic that operated out of the Morgan County Health Center. The clinic provided primary care, mental health services, as well as pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and referral services at no cost to low-income, uninsured individuals.
• Connecting the Chronically Ill
  July 2009
  The Connecting the Chronically Ill project's goals included connecting the chronically ill, medically underserved adults to health care services; Improving quality of life through wellness education and case management services; and providing health care coverage for low-income, medically underserved, chronically ill adults age 18 and older living in Baker County.
• Meadows Regional Medical Center Rural Health Outreach Project
  May 2009
  The cosortium provided a wide range of primary health care services, including general health, blood pressure, and blood glucose screenings to uninsured and underinsured families living in the service area.
• Serving the Working Poor, Retaining Health Care Providers, and Planning for Best Management Practices: The Challenges Met by a Network of Rural Health Care Providers
  May 2009
  The purpose of this project was to stabilize and sustain the practices of three area providers who were vital to safeguarding the health of residents.
• Waterfall Clinic
  May 2009
  The Coos County Waterfall Clinic offered many services to low-income families in the area.
• St. Lawrence Access to Care Program
  May 2009
  Program activities included an intensive education and outreach campaign to increase awareness of the need for and availability of preventive health screenings, a concerted effort to access points to network services for uninsured and underinsured residents, and the provision of followup and diagnostic testing for uninsured and underinsured clients with problematic screening results.
• Community Access Program (CAP)- West Virginia
  April 2008
  Partners in Health Network improved access to health care services, provided discounts and free services to patients who met the financial eligibility screening, and provided care management services to adults ages 19-64 with asthma, depression, diabetes and hypertension.
• Farmers' Health Cooperative of Wisconsin
  November 2007
  The Farmers’ Health Cooperative of Wisconsin (FHCW) is a cooperative formed to serve Wisconsin farmers and agribusinesses by allowing them to join the co-op to purchase health insurance.
• Western Healthcare Alliance Preferred Provider Organization
  August 2007
  The Western Healthcare Alliance (WHA) Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) provides participating WHA Members with a discount on any employee health service received from another WHA Member provider.
• Matagorda-Wharton Health Access Consortium
  January 2007
  This project addresses the all-around need for better care and care access in a medically underserved area of Texas.
• Albemarle Hospital Foundation, Inc. Consortium
  January 2007
  The Albemarle Hospital Foundation, Inc., and its four consortium members are focusing on providing expanded services to medically indigent, uninsured and underserved adult populations of a six county catchment area of northeastern North Carolina: Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank and Perquimans.
• Caring Community Network of the Twin Rivers Project
  January 2007
  This project will enhance existing mechanisms and expand the capacity of the network to provide effective, coordinated, and accessible services throughout the region that improve health outcomes of uninsured clients with chronic illness and provide appropriate services such as emergency room care.
• Community Health Services Consortium Project
  January 2007
  A consortium of three parties are working together to provide basic primary care and dental services to a target population of adults and children with incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty level who live in the area of Willard, Huron County, Ohio, as well as the southeast corner of Seneca County and the northeast corer of Crawford County.
• Lafayette County 4 Health Project
  January 2007
  The project will incorporate community education and outreach approaches to connect vulnerable, low-income populations to an integrated network of local health and social support services.
• Kentucky River Health Network Project
  January 2007
  This project is part of a twofold mission to improve access to preventive care services for the underinsured and uninsured in the target area.
• Western Appalachian Kentucky Health Care Access Consortium
  January 2007
  The consortium's mission is to improve access to primary care and dental care among low-income, uninsured, and underinsured residents, with a special emphasis on providing outreach services for the unmet needs of an expanding Latino population.
• Mobile Clinic/Telehealth project
  January 2007
  This consortium was formed to address the lack of basic healthcare available in the rural, impoverished areas of the Central Valley of California. This project will focus on health promotion and health screenings to prevent cancer and other diseases.
• Rural Assistance Program for Churches and Schools
  January 2007
  The Rural Assistance Program for Churches and Schools (RAPCS) will provide access to health care for disadvantaged populations in Green, Sumter, and Marengo Counties. These counties are ranked among the poorest in the State and the Nation.
• Sylacauga Alliance for Family Enhancement Program
  January 2007
  The goal of this project is to increase the quality and years of life for individuals of the target population of under and uninsured residents of Talladega County, Alabama with chronic diseases of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Diabetes and/or Hypertension.
• Tulare County Children's Health Initiative
  January 2007
  The Tulare County Children's Health Initiative (CHI) is focused on increasing dental and medical health access for children ages 0-18 through outreach and enrollment into publicly funded programs and by offering a new gap insurance product, Healthy Kids, for children ineligible for state Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
• Nelson County Rural Health Outreach
  July 2005
  This Rural Health Outreach Program launched a school nursing program that placed registered nurses in each of the six Nelson County public schools as well as creating a supplementary health education program provided by a registered nurse who traveled to each site.
• Nicholas County Rural Health Outreach Grant Program
  July 2005
  This program provided health care services to medically underserved populations and also offered health education and prevention programs for the population at large, as well as continuing assessment, screening, and follow-up services.