PROJECT ACCESS CLARK COUNTY: Physicians and Health Care Providers

About Project Access

Project Access is a nationally replicated model that uses a coordinated volunteer physician network to provide health care to low-income uninsured individuals. Project Access Clark County coordinates services for people with an identified specialty medical need who do not have health insurance, do not qualify for publicly funded coverage, and have income at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.

Patients who have specialty medical needs may be referred to Project Access Clark County by a practicing physician. Referrals to Project Access may not be made from the Emergency Room. Project Access uses a database that tracks the number of referrals offered by each physician and equitably distributes patients amongst volunteers in each specialty on a yearly basis. You will not be asked to provide for more than the number for which you register, and may change this number at any time.
Download our Program Overview (pdf)

How is this different than what I already do?

Project Access is an efficiently organized system that quantifies and coordinates the charity care you may already be providing. Patients in each of the local Project Access initiatives will have access to medications, hospitalizations, lab testing, diagnostic imaging and other ancillary services. The Project Access system is allows you to order tests, schedule hospitalizations and care for your uninsured patients in a manner very similar to the process for caring for insured patients. With Project Access Clark County, all you have to do is provide the care. Let us do the rest.
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Liability

Thanks to the advocacy of other Project Access initiatives in Washington State, the 2004 Washington State Legislature expanded the Good Samaritan Law to significantly increase malpractice immunity to physicians who provide charity medical care through Project Access. In order to receive this increased immunity, physicians must have a signed written participation agreement with their local Project Access initiative.
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Current support for Project Access Clark County

Support for Project Access Clark County has grown steadily over the past two years. Physician group recruitment is just beginning in earnest, and already the Clark County health care community is eager to participate.

Project Access Clark County is of non-profit status. We are are able to coordinate medical services solely through in-kind donations from volunteer physicians and health care providers. We deeply appreciate all partners and supporters of this innovative collaborative.

For a list of physician groups and partners participating in Project Access Clark County, please click here

Want to become a Project Access Clark County volunteer? Download our Participation Agreement (pdf)

Marti Anne Gilman, Patient Care Coordinator
Megan Niermeyer, Administrative Coordinator
360-313-1390
[projectaccess @ freeclinics . org]
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