Success Stories by Topic: Poverty

• 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.
• Cherokee Health Systems Rural Outreach Project
  July 2009
  Cherokee Health Systems proposed a collaborative health outreach project to address issues like language barriers, lack of trust in the health care system, and, in many cases, more pressing human needs—such as social services, food, and clothing in this predominately rural Appalachian region.
• 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.
• Park County Diabetes Project
  May 2009
  The Park County Diabetes Project was developed to instigate a formal process for identifying and tracking patients with diabetes, to coordinate health care services for residents with diabetes, to increase the knowledge of area health care and ancillary providers regarding diabetes management, and to provide diabetes education to patients and families.
• Senior Discount Drug Program
  May 2009
  The McKinney Community Health Center developed a consortium of organizations to provide senior citizens living at or below the poverty level with discount-rate medications for hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia.
• East Texas Border Health Consortium Project
  January 2007
  The goal of this project is to deliver integrated primary and mental health care to isolated, chronically ill population groups in Harrison and Marion counties.
• Single Point of Entry and Lay Promotora Program
  January 2007
  This 3-year outreach proposal is focused on designing a Single Point of Entry and Lay Promotora Program to deliver Prescription Assistance to a target population defied as residents of Taos County 18 years and older with a diagnosis of type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes who are up to 185 percent of the poverty level.