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Project Access Dallas was created in 2001 to assist Dallas County residents who struggle daily with the challenges of poverty and cannot afford medical insurance. The program enrolls patients to receive health care from volunteer physicians, while also providing resources to those physicians needed to care for the patients.

Now in 2011, the program is a successful network of partnering hospitals, charity medical clinics, and ancillary partners and physicians who volunteer to see uninsured, low-income patients. The program provides each patient a primary care physician from the volunteer network, $750 in pharmacy benefits, and access to free specialty care, labs, ancillary procedures, care coordination, and inpatient hospital care.

The program has produced unimagined stories of care and health improvement among people in whom illnesses and poverty had stolen all hope. Your continued support will enable us to sustain and expand Project Access Dallas.

For more information, please visit the Project Access Dallas web site: www.projectaccess.info

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2010 Project Access Dallas Year in Review by Jim Walton, DO, MBA
2010 was a watershed year for Project Access Dallas. Prompted by the growth of our partnership with the Dallas County Indigent Care Corp. and the adverse effects of the national recession, PAD’s leadership embarked upon the ambitious goal of expanding enrollment to 3000 members. .… read more

The Dallas County Medical Society and Project Access Dallas are pleased to announce selections for the 2011 PAD Physician Volunteers of the Year. Jennifer Kampas, MD, is the Primary Care Physician Volunteer of the Year and Donald Brotherman, MD, is the Specialty Care Physician Volunteer of the Year. View the article published in the February edition of the Dallas Medical Journal.

Project Access Dallas is a community-wide collaborative among physicians, hospitals and the healthcare industry that provides compassionate care and medical homes for the uninsured working poor of our community. Since the program began in 2001, DCMS has been privileged to serve as the lead partner, working to improve the lives of patients, improve clinical outcomes, and reduce disparities in the healthcare system.

Project Access Dallas physicians treated more than 3,000 Dallas County patients in 2010. Physicians in the program agree to see a certain number of patients each year. Primary care providers typically agree to care for five or more patients; specialty physicians generally see 10 or more patients.

Award recipient Donald Brotherman, MD, sums up PAD and its work by saying, “PAD patients aren’t looking for a handout; they are looking for a helping hand.” This is exactly why PAD exists—to care for those who are in need of care and cannot care for themselves.

Jennifer Kampas, MD, is a family practice physician who volunteers at Hope Clinic in Garland.

“A lot of social and economic barriers interfere with our patients’ health,” Dr. Kampas says, “but I’m encouraged to see them making healthy changes and gaining better control of their health.”

Dr. Kampas has been volunteering with the clinic since 2006 and saw approximately 500 patients in 2010.

“Hope Clinic would not be the same without her,” says Jenny Williams, Hope Clinic executive director.

Dr. Kampas, a University of Texas Medical School at Houston graduate, and her husband, Chris, a family practice physician at Medical City Dallas, have two children, Nathan and Emily.

Dr. Brotherman graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and is an ophthalmologist at Dallas Medical Center. He’s a life member of DCMS and has been a generous contributor to PAD since its inception in 2002. This past year, he cared for 30 PAD patients, which was above his initial pledge.

Physicians have a greater opportunity than many other professions to help and advise others, Dr. Brotherman says. He believes that physicians have God-given gifts that are meant to be shared.

“It isn’t hard to spend a little time helping those who otherwise would not be able to have? access to medical care,” he says.

Dr. Brotherman and his wife of 48 years, Cherry, have four children and 14 grandchildren.

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