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Bulletin Board
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| Mar 21, 2007 |
2007 DENTAL SEALANT PROJECT
Wednesday, March 21
This year we had a total of 93 volunteers13 Dentists; 26 Hygienists; 38 Dental Assistants and 16 IBC Bank volunteers helped with front desk duties. Volunteers came from Austin, Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Buda, Leander, La Grange, San Antonio, Hutto, and San Marcos.
This was the first year Georgetown Dental Center participated in the Dental Sealant project and in addition to sealants they provided x-rays and teeth cleaning services. The Northeast Clinic location served 111 children; RBJ served 52 children and Georgetown served 18 children for a total of 181 children. Of the 181 children, 177 actually received sealants.
In a period of five hours, 181 children received a free dental exam and a total of 585 sealants were placed on the childrens teeth. ﾹThe estimated cost of services provided per child averages $187.50; therefore, a total of $33,950 was donated in dental services.
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| Feb 7, 2007 |
HELP LINE FOR Katrina Evacuees
Katrina adults and children who need primary care, please call: 324-2447.
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| Feb 7, 2007 |
Hospital Emergency Department Use in Travis, Hays and Williamson Counties
In a continuing series of studies and analyses for the communities of Central Texas, the Indigent Care Collaboration (ICC) recently updated a previous study of Emergency Department (ED) data of twelve area hospitals in Travis, Hays, and Williamson counties.
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| Aug 15, 2006 |
Playing the Health Insurance Gamble - Business owners, workers forgo expensive coverage
A growing number of small business owners and full-time workers make up
about 80 percent of America's 46 million people without health insurance.
The number of people without such insurance increased 11.2 percent from 2001
to 2004.
Though California beats Texas in absolute numbers, the Lone Star state ranks
No. 1 for the percentage of its population lacking health insurance, with
one out of every four Texans living without coverage. That translates into 5
million people without insurance in Texas--an estimated 250,000 in Travis
County alone.
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| Aug 14, 2006 |
DENTAL SEALANT DAY - A BIG SUCCESS!!
Wednesday, March 1
The 8th Annual Seal Out Decay...The Austin Way! was held February 11, 2006.
Over 120 Volunteers from Austin, Bastrop, Pflugerville, Georgetown, Kyle, Cedar Park, Liberty Hill, Leander, Round Rock, LaGrange, Lexington, Hutto and even as far as San Antonio came out to participate in this worthwhile cause. Because of their efforts we were able to serve 304 children who are either uninsured or cannot afford dental care.
Each of the clinic sites were buzzing with kids from Travis, Hays and Williamson Counties. At the Northeast Austin Clinic 97 children were screened, Seton Topfer Clinic screened 118 children and RBJ Dental Clinic screened 99 children. A total of 1,379 sealants were placed on the kids' teeth. This means that a total of $45,600 was donated in volunteer dental services.
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| Jan 11, 2006 |
January 2006 - SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Wednesday, January 11
Hospitals, clinics to aid uninsured.
For people without health insurance, there's always the hospital emergency room--required by law to care for the acutely ill regardless of their ability to pay.
And many of them seek care at many different emergency rooms when their symptoms worsen, repeating costly tests.
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| Sep 23, 2005 |
May 2005 - Palm Beach County follows Austin's lead in providing health care for uninsured
AUSTIN, Texas -- Each morning at the Seton McCarthy Community Health Clinic, where nearly half the patients have no health insurance, customer representative Jennifer Rodriguez sits at a computer terminal and does a background screening on patients scheduled to visit that day.
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| Jul 25, 2005 |
Jan 2005 - Hospitals seeing more mentally ill
State caregivers blame Legislature's 2003 budget cuts as patients struggle to find help. Read the full article from the Austin American Statesman.
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| May 17, 2005 |
The ICC hits a major milestone in August
The Indigent Care Collaboration reached a milestone in its goal to improve access to affordable health care for residents of the region when it added its 1 millionth health care visit into its communitywide patient information system, its leader announced Friday, September 3rd.
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| May 11, 2005 |
Prescription Discount Plans for Non-Medicare patients
NOTE: This list of available prescription discount plans for individuals that are not on Medicare is provided for informational use only and should not be regarded as promoting any specific plan...
see the attached list
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