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Robbers had to wait two weeks for her appointment, but she was glad that she got the day that she did. The doctor who was volunteering that day was the same doctor she had seen when she had had insurance.
"I was really impressed," she said. "I was really surprised they had medication here. They gave me an inhaler."
Velva Roberts visited Health Care Access in Lawrence for the second time April 15. She had had bronchitis since December but lacked the money or insurance to pay for a doctor.
Melyn Mitchell also wasimpressed with the clinic.
The center arranged an appointment for her at Health Care Access, a clinic that provides basic medical care for low-income people.
Roberts said that after she lost her job, she went to the Ballard Community Center. 708 Elm St., which is located in the food panty and day-care program.
Health Care Access provides high-quality care at low cost
Mitchell started bringing his wife, Dixie Mitchell, to the clinic about two months ago. She has diabetes but has not been covered by her husband's insurance retirement from the Lawrence Paper Company, 2801 Lakeview Road.
"We come once a week," Melvyn Mitchell said.
By Amy Francis Kansan staff writer
The clinic also helps Mitchell by paying for some of her medication, he said.
Empowerment
Health Care Access
The clinic provides the same basic services as a doctor's office. Eyerly said.
Judy Eyery, project coordinator for Health Care Access, said the clinic was open only four hours a week, from 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays and
VISTA is Volunteers in Service to America. A VISTA volunteer is paid at 100 percent of the poverty level, Bono said.
The Health Care Access clinic began operating in June 1989, said Emily Bono, VISTA volunteer for the clinic. It was the result of a local task group in 2008 to evaluate the accessibility of health services to low-income people.
The clinic also pays up to $20 every two months per family member for prescriptions.
Not everyone is allowed to use Health Care Access services.
The patients
Last year, Health Care Access used a federal Community Development Block Grant of $3,600 to help of patients on medication. Everly said.
Before patients even visit the clinic, they must be referred by another agency that has verified their eligibility for the clinic.
Patients must prove that their income is no more than 150 percent of the poverty level and that they have access and no access to other health care.
Jean Palmateer, assistant daycare director of the Ballard Center, said that at least to people a week apart must have Care Access at the Ballard Center.
Bono said that as many as 13 patients had been treated in one day at the clinic but that it was the average. A third of the cases are seen each time the clinic is open.
Patients pay a clinic fee determined by a sliding scale based on income. The maximum fee is $5.
"It does get easier, but the needs get greater, too. More volunteers are needed. We need more equipment more space. Need. Need. Need."
Financial problems
"That is definitely our largest expense," Etery said. "The pharmacy was between one-third and one-fourth of our budget for last year. We're operating on less than $40,000 a year."
Although the clinic is open only 16 hours a month, financing has been hard to secure.
Donations from various health organizations also help the clinic. Drug samples, bandages and gloves are some of the donated items.
Requests for the grant must be made annually.
Kay Kent, a member of Health Care Access' board of directors, said, "There really is not a committed ongoing source of funding. I think it's
But Eyerly said donations did not always meet the clinic's needs.
Bono said the office space and utilities used for the clinic were donated by the Lawrence Housing Authority.
A rotating schedule is used to schedule the 15 doctors and 10 nurses who volunteer at the clinic, Bono said.
Specialty services are offered by 15 dentists and several surgeons in their offices. The services cannot be offered in the clinic because of the equipment needed, she said. But before patients can go to a doctor's office, they must be referred by the clinic.
critical to the survival of Health Care Access."
“There are frustrations involved in a situation like that because you can't do all the things you can do in your own office,” he said. “I don't think it's the long-term solution to the health problem.”
Volunteers
Steve Bruner, a Lawrence physician, is one of the volunteers. He said that he had enjoyed working at the hospital that it was not an ideal situation.
One of the ways Health Care Act
by using volunteer doctors and nurses
There are rewards, he said.
The role of the volunteer is not restricted to that of doctors and nurses. Local businesses and health agencies help also.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital is one of them. It provides services such as surgery, lab and radiological room and emergency room treatment.
"The people who come in really are grateful to get health care," he said.
Business involvement
Bono said that 12 pharmacies provided medication at wholesale prices to the clinic, but prescriptions must be written at the clinic before being filled. The clinic is billed for the medication.
The services provided cost the hospital from $1,000 to $3,000 a month, Nelson said.
Lawrence pharmacies also provide services for Health Care Access.
Tom Wilcox, pharmacist at Round Corner Drug Store, 801 Massachusetts St. said, "The whole idea behind Health Care Access is to give people the highest quality health care. We want to give the highest quality health care possible. We are not out to give somebody health care that is not up to sniff."
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