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Since its inception, the ICC has worked to develop a system of care in central Texas, and to invest in strategies to accomplish this. Most noteworthy among these strategies are:

  • ICare
    A Master Patient Index/Clinical Data Repository through which safety net providers build shared longitudinal electronic health records for uninsured and other low income patients to improve care continuity and delivery (more...)
  • Medicaider/Case Tracker
    A common eligibility program through which uninsured central Texas residents are screened for eligibility for medical assistance and charitable programs (more...)
  • Pharmacy/Patient Assistance Program
    Pharmacy strategies, through which lower cost and free drugs are made available for low-income patients (more...)
  • Primary care capacity building (PCCT)
    The Primary Care Capacity Team studies use and capacity of healthcare resources in Central Texas and makes recommendations for charting the future of healthcare delivery.
  • Integrated behavioral and primary care (EMERGE)
    ATCMHMR and the City of Austin CHCs work together to integrate behavioral and general healthcare under the same roof, so patients get better coordinated care in the most normalized environment.
  • Centralized scheduling, screening, triage (IMPACT)
    A healthcare referral hotline based in Williamson County, and established through a grant managed by the ICC.
  • Care coordination (PharmCare, Asthma Program)
    The Asthma care coordination programs is designed to leverage ICC resources to help guide people with Asthma into the health education and case management services.  The PharmCare program aims to provide a pharmacist case manager to help patients in clinics to manage their conditions through appropriate use of pharmaceutical resources.
  • Project Access (Volunteer physicians)
    The Travis County Medical Society, working with the Indigent Care Collaboration, has initiated Project Access, a coordinated system of volunteer physician care, hospital care, diagnostic services and medications assistance for the low-income, uninsured of Travis County.

 


Our strategies were developed with the assistance of four significant grants and awards:

  1. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Communities in Charge grant of $700,000 that supported general system development from 2000-2003.
  2. A HRSA CAP/HCAP grant of nearly $2 million that supported the development of MPI/CDR and Medicaider programs from 2000-2003.
  3. A grant from Ascension Health, of $900,000, that matched the first HRSA HCAP grant.
  4. A second HRSA HCAP grant of $2 million to support pharmacy initiatives from 2003-2006.

The ICC is now largely self-sustaining, based on contributions of member organizations, and supplemented by smaller grants for specific projects from time to time. 

More information about the ICC initiatives and other similar initiatives from around the country can be found at the Communities in Charge website (www.communitiesincharge.org), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website (www.rwjf.org), the Federal HRSA website (www.hrsa.gov), and, for those with passwords, the HCAP website, (www.capcommunity.hrsa.gov).