Linn County Project Access: A Specialty Care Referral Network
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About Us: Linn County Project Access
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Managing chronic health conditions accounts for more than 75% of the nation's health care spending.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Coordinating free specialty health care
An estimated 9,000-10,000 people are uninsured and considered low income at any given time in Linn County, Iowa. With the rising cost of health care and other living expenses, this number is expected to grow.
Established in 2008, Linn County Project Access is designed to provide a coordinated system for helping uninsured people get the health care they need in the most efficient and cost effective way possible. 
Access to comprehensive health care is become increasingly more difficult in the United States. There are more than 40 Project Access sites throughout the country. Focus is on maintaining a patient's relationship with their primary care physician and connecting them with specialists and other health care resources.

Project Access Goals for patients include:
  • Increase health care service availablity.
  • Improve health care outcomes.
  • Reduce unnecessary emergency room visits.
Project Access health care partners are committed to working together to connect patients with all necessary health care services.

In addition to helping uninsured people, Project Access aids physicians who want to volunteer their time and services to people who do not have access to quality health care because of their financial situation. Participating doctors demonstrate their commitment to the ideals of the medical profession by donating care through Project Access either in their office or through community health centers and free health clinics.
Project Access Goals for physicians:

  • Reduce time spent referring patients to needed health care services.
  • Organize and track donated health care.
  • Coordinate patient financial screening and enrollment in eligible programs.   

 

 

Project Access is modeled after Buncombe County Project Access in North Carolina, which was started in 1996 by Buncombe County Medical Society. (Read more)

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Coordinating donated specialty health care for uninsured, low-income adults in Linn County, Iowa.
Linn County Project Access, 501 13th St NW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52405
Phone: (319) 892-6083 Email: info@linncountyprojectaccess,com
Managed by Healthy Linn Care Network
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