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People's Community Clinic

Austin, Texas

Cause Description:
One of the oldest, continuously running independent clinics in the country, People's Community Clinic (PCC) is an Austin tradition. Established in 1970 by a group of volunteer doctors and nurses, PCC has never wavered from its mission: to improve the health of medically underserved and uninsured Central Texans by providing high quality, affordable health care. Most PCC patients are from working families earning too much income to qualify for entitlements yet not able to afford healthcare insurance premiums, or workers whose employers do not offer healthcare insurance coverage. There are approximately 280,000 uninsured adults and children (1 in 4) in the Austin metropolitan area. Annually, thousands of these individuals seek medical care from the twenty public clinics in the area. People's Community Clinic serves as the medical home for over 10,000 of these patients. For proper diagnosis and treatment, these people have few health care options other than the emergency room. PCC provides a medical home that provides continuity of care that an Emergency Room simply is not designed to offer. The Clinic provides these health care services on a sliding scale basis according to the patients' income.

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