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    How Safe Is the Safety Net: A Partnership to Address the Needs of the Underserved in Milwaukee County

    Project Overview

    1st Funding Cycle Planning Award
         Project Start Date: 4/1/2005
         Project End Date: 3/31/2006

    Project Goal Statement: This project aims to develop a coalition of free and low cost clinics to understand and address the needs of the uninsured. The goal of the coalition is to learn as much as possible about those who lack sufficient financial resources to qualify for any kind of insurance, but yet choose to electively and non-emergently access safety net health care providers.

    Award Amount: $24,635

    Community Partners:
    Primary Community Partner: Bread of Healing Clinic
    Additional community partner organization names:

    • Covenant Healthcare System
    • Family House Clinic
    • Gerald Ignace Indian Health Center
    • Greater Milwaukee Free Clinic
    • Health Care for the Homeless of Milwaukee
    • Madre Angela Dental Clinic
    • Marquette Clinic for Women and Children
    • Medical Society of Milwaukee County
    • Milwaukee Health Services, Inc.
    • St. Ben's Clinic
    • Sixteenth Street Community Health Center
    • Walker's Point Community Clinic
    • Westside Healthcare Association
    • Wisconsin Health and Hospital Association
    • Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association

    Academic Partners:
    Primary Academic Partner: Marie Wolff, PhD, Department of Family and Community Medicine
    Additional Academic Partners:

    • Shari Crome, Department of Family and Community Medicine
    • Alan David, MD, Department of Family and Community Medicine
    • Staci Young, MS, Department of Family and Community Medicine

    Project Progress Summary Reports:
         Project Progress Report Summary April 2005 - March 2006
         Project Final Report Summary    

    Affiliated Web Pages:
        Bread of Healing Clinic
        Covenant Healthcare System
        Gerald Ignace Indian Health Center
        Greater Milwaukee Free Clinic
        Health Care for the Homeless of Milwaukee
        Madre Angela Dental Clinic
        Marquette Clinic for Women and Children
        Medical Society of Milwaukee County
        Milwaukee Health Services, Inc.
        St. Ben's Clinic
        Sixteenth Street Community Health Center
        Walker's Point Community Clinic
        Westside Healthcare Association
        Wisconsin Health and Hospital Association
        Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association

    Project Dissemination Efforts (as reported by project partners)
         None reported