Help ensure the public’s ability to access healthcare in our community.
OUR GOALS:
1. Annually increase enrollment of eligible Pierce County
citizens into state and federally funded healthcare benefit
plans.
2. Increase the number of Pierce County citizens enrolled in small business healthcare plans.
3. Increase the number of health care providers in Pierce County in targeted, high-need areas of care.
4. Increase healthcare access in areas where emerging issues and focused efforts over a short period may achieve immediate improvements in care.
WHAT'S
NEW...IN HEALTHCARE ACCESS
2007 Investments in Healthcare One of the toughest issues facing Pierce County is access to healthcare. This year, United Way of Pierce County is giving some existing programs a boost to help meet this need.
To date, United Way of Pierce County’s Healthcare Access Action Team has invested $90,000 in existing programs and leveraged more than $700,000 to launch vital mental health programs.
Here are just some of the investments being made in Healthcare Access:
- $70,000 to Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children to provide direct oral healthcare services to children ages 0 to 19 with public health coverage benefits or without any type of insurance.
- $20,000 to Access to Baby and Child Dentistry (ABCD) to ensure children have healthy teeth upon entering kindergarten, to train and certify dentists to perform pediatric oral healthcare exams and to provide access to children with Medicaid.
- Leveraging funds for the Unemployable (GA-U) Mental Health Pilot Project in Pierce County to add a mental healthcare component to an existing public benefit. Nearly half of the more than 700 patients in this category have some form of mental illness.
Health Care for All Kids Will Pay Off Common sense is sometimes trumped by the emotion of politics, and the current debate over state health care coverage for kids appears to be a good example of political emotion gone wild. (The News Tribune, June 15, 2007) Full story »
Rural Healthcare Recieves Financial Boost United Way of Pierce County and the Tacoma Pierce County Health Department both invested $5,000 into the Rural Health Collaborative to help fund a project which would increase healthcare access for the people living in Eatonville and the surrounding area. This $10,000 investment opened the door to an addtional $100,000 from the Pierce County Citizens Advisory Board. The project is called the Eatonville Area Council Senior Housing and Wellness Center.
Get Information on Low-Cost Dental Care from Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
Unhealthy assurances - Without serious remedies, lack of health insurance will pose growing threat to social fabric of Pierce County RICK ALLEN (Published in The News Tribune: May 14th, 2006)
One in eight people in Pierce County doesn't have health insurance. The numbers around the country are just as staggering. Learn how we can Cover the Uninsured.
WORKING WITH THE ABCD PROGRAM - The Access to Baby and Child Dentistry (ABCD) program is designed to put smiles on the faces of young children by increasing access to dental care for Medicaid eligible infants, toddlers and preschoolers within Pierce County.
Dental care vital for
all children - LARRY MAST; KING COUNTY JOURNAL
Healthcare Access Advocacy Agenda
