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Mission In 2002, the Dallas County Medical Society in collaboration with several community partners created a community service program called Project Access Dallas. The heartbeat of the program is compassionate care for our community’s uninsured patients who struggle daily with the challenges of poverty and who have no access to health care. The program is a network of volunteer physicians, partnering hospitals, community charity health clinics, and ancillary partners who volunteer to care for working poor patients. Physicians, hospitals, or ancillary partners who sign up to volunteer in the program determine their level of participation by agreeing to donate their services to see a set number of patients per year. Patients are referred for enrollment in the program from volunteer physicians, partnering charity health clinics, and partnering hospitals. Because of the generous donated services of our partners, when a patient is enrolled in Project Access Dallas, he is assigned a primary care physician; receives $750 a year in pharmacy benefits; and has access to free specialty care, labs, ancillary procedures, care coordination, and inpatient hospital care. Since Project Access Dallas began seeing patients (April 1, 2002), the program has steadily grown to more than 700 physicians, 15 hospitals, nine charity health clinics, ten ancillary service support organizations, one national laboratory service organization, and more than 40,000 nationwide pharmacies. For more information, contact Connie Webster, director of Project Access Dallas/community health, at 214-413-1426 or email connie@dallas-cms.org. 2008 Project Access Dallas Partners From April 2002 through December 2007, more than $11.2 million worth of reported free health care and medications have been provided to the working poor of our community. Our volunteers and donors deserve the most praise. Without our partners, the lives of many patients would be very different. Founding Partners Charity Medical Clinic Enrollment Sites Pharmacy Support Community Partners Hospital Support Ancillary Services Support Laboratory Services Support Click here to view the names of our incredible volunteer physicians who, without them, the lives of many Dallas patients would be very different. (last updated March 2008) |
