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 2010, 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, $1500 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

June 2010 Project Access Dallas Update by Jim Walton, DO, MBA
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Sen. John Cornyn visited with Project Access Dallas to learn more about solutions for the uninsured working poor.

Health care reform continues to be at the forefront of discussion, as leaders in Washington pose ideas and issues surrounding possible answers. Sen. Cornyn took time to tour several places throughout Texas where communities came together to find solutions for the crisis of scarce affordable health care. Here in Dallas, executives from all the major hospital systems sat in a roundtable discussion with Sen. Cornyn to show support for UPL government funding and hear how the funds have benefited Project Access Dallas. Several patients and charitable clinic staff were present to give first-hand accounts of how Project Access Dallas helped them receive dignified quality health care in times of need.

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