Mission

Project Access Dallas is about the life-stories of people who have received healthcare services through the generosity of our volunteer physicians and the donated services and funding received from our partners.

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 2,100 physicians, 17 hospitals, 14 community and charity health clinics, 10 ancillary service support organizations, two national laboratory service organizations, and more than 40,000 nationwide pharmacies. For more information, contact Cheryl Prelow, Vice President of Project Access Dallas, at 214-413-1435 or email cheryl@dallas-cms.org.

2011 Project Access Dallas Partners

From April 2002 through December 2010, more than $24.2 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
Dallas County Medical Society
Health Texas Provider Network
CitySquare (formerly Central Dallas Ministries)
Dallas/Fort Worth Hospital Council

Community and Charitable Clinics
(Medical Home and/or Enrollment Site)
Baylor Family Medicine at Garland
Baylor Family Medicine at Worth Street
Brother Bill’s Helping Hand
Christ’s Family Clinic
CitySquare (formerly Central Dallas Ministries)
Diabetes Health & Wellness Institute
Grand Prairie Wellness Institute
Healing Hands Ministries
Hope Clinic Garland
Irving Interfaith Clinic
Jackson Internal Medicine Clinic
Metrocrest Family Medical Clinic
Mission East Dallas
North Dallas Shared Ministries

Pharmacy Support
Caremark

Community Partners
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas
Caring for Children Foundation of Texas
Dallas County Commissioners Court
DCMS Foundation
HCA North Texas Division
McCune Charitable Foundation
Parkland Health & Hospital System
Physicians’ Foundation for Health Systems Excellence
Texas Health Resources
Texas Medical Association
The Cirrus Companies
Thompson & Knight, LLP
UT Southwestern Medical Center
UT Southwestern Medical Center Family & Community Medicine Department

Hospital Support
Baylor University Medical Center
Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation
Baylor Jack & Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital
Baylor Medical Center Garland
Baylor Medical Center Irving
Baylor Specialty Hospital/ Our Children’s House
Children’s Medical Center
Green Oaks Hospital at Medical City Dallas
Las Colinas Medical Center
Medical City Dallas
Methodist Charlton Medical Center
Methodist Dallas Medical Center
Parkland Health & Hospital System
St. Paul University Hospital
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
Zale Lipshy University Hospital

Ancillary Services Support
4 Better Sleep
American Health Imaging
MedProvider
North Central Surgery Center
Park Central Surgery Center
Pediatric Surgery Center
Prime Diagnostic
Southwest Diagnostic Imaging Center
Texas Institute for Surgery
Two Forest Imaging

Laboratory Services Support
Clinical Pathology Laboratories
Laboratory Corporation of America