Health care providers:
Your community needs your help
In addition to helping uninsured people, Linn County Project Access aids health care providers 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 health care providers 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.
Primary care and specialty care physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are all encouraged to enroll in Project Access.
· Project Access enrolls patients and ensures their eligibility
· Patients are connected with necessary specialty health care
· Project Access tracks donated health care provided
· Project Access requires that patients have a connection with a medical home, that is, an ongoing relationship with a regular primary care physician who coordinates patient care and helps manage ongoing health concerns and chronic conditions.
Primary care providers who already provide health care to patients for free are encouraged to enroll in Project Access. Health care providers who sign up for Project Access will be given credit toward their pledge for any current patients treated for free if those patients apply and qualify for Project Access. For example, this may assist patients who had insurance but recently lost their insurance and job but may be eligible for Project Access as a stopgap measure until they again qualify for insurance.
Enrolled primary care and specialty physicians are asked to pledge to accept a certain number of Linn County Project Access patients and facilitate a treatment plan for each. The suggested pledge is eight to 12 patients for specialty care providers and three to five patients for primary care providers. The number of pledges equals a number of patients, not the number of patient visits, to be treated in a 12-month period.
