Objectives

  • To focus on significant health issues affecting the targeted population.

 

  • To assess health care needs versus available services for the low-income, uninsured community.

 

  • To confirm that program methodologies are on the right track.

 

  • To provide feedback data for existing program funders and statistical data for potential grant sources

 

  • To encourage early prevention and treatment of illness for low-income uninsured working families in the five parish area served.

 

  • To recruit and coordinate community resources and volunteers in an effort to ensure that health care services are available to those in need.

 

  • To lessen barriers to care by providing accessible, quality medical care in an after-hours setting.

 

  • To increase awareness and prevention of disease through patient education and counseling.

 

  • To act as an advocate on a patient’s behalf in order to obtain medications through Pharmaceutical Access Programs.