Thanks for Helping Our Friends & Neighbors!
Thanks to a 2008 year- end gift of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, uninsured resi- dents enrolled in local access coalition programs throughout the U.P. are receiving needed health care, medical testing services and prescriptions.
In making the holiday season gift, the diocese noted it is “keenly aware of the hardships faced by people without health care and medical insurance.”
Special congregational offerings designated by the diocese for addressing its Millennium Develop- ment Goals were directed to the work of Community Health Access Coalition, Dickinson-Iron Medical Care Access Coalition, Medical Access Coalition, Medical Care Access Coalition and Western U.P. Healthcare Access Coalition in communities across the U.P. |
|
Caught
between rising costs for health care and health
insurance premiums
and limited resources to pay for medical services?
Thousands of working-age residents of Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula – our family, friends
and neighbors – face that dilemma
every day, uninsured and in need of medical
care or prescriptions.
Today, many low-income residents who would have
“fallen through the cracks” of the health
care system benefit from community-based
resources of five regional Access to Health
Care coalitions.
Volunteer doctors and
other health care providers, pharmaceutical
companies and local pharmacies, hospitals
and laboratories all contribute to make
medical office visits, branded and generic
drugs and medical testing available to
some of the region’s most needy adults.
Information about programs in your area
is only a click away. Find the program
in your county from the service area map above.
In 2007, more than 3,000 residents of
the Upper Peninsula were served by
Access Coalition programs in their communities and
received basic health care services,
prescriptions and medical testing free of charge
or at low cost.
|
