This post was last updated on 8/26/2021 at 11:30 am. Important Note: Per the CDC, COVID-19 vaccines are available for everyone at no cost. Vaccines were paid for with taxpayer dollars and will be given to all people living in the United States, regardless of insurance or immigration status. The COVID-19 vaccination is an important tool to […]
Article by Beth Reese Cravey, The Florida Times-Union JaxCareConnect, a new initiative developed to connect uninsured Jacksonville residents to primary care, has launched a website to build those connections online. The site — jaxcareconnect.org — will use patients’ health care needs and location to match them to primary care providers in a network of free and low-cost health centers. “We have […]
April is National Minority Health Month. This is a time to raise awareness about health disparities that continue to affect racial and ethnic minority populations and encourage action through health education, early detection, and control of disease complications. To participate in this discussion, we wanted to highlight some of our patients. Today’s patient story is […]
We’ve reported over the past few months that we have continued to see increased need for care for patients with a diagnosis of cancer. Now that 2020 has closed, we can report some challenging trends. In all, 70% more patients with a diagnosis of cancer presented for care in 2020 over 2019. As the graphic shows, […]
Our WeCareJax patient, Wiley, has been receiving specialty care physical therapy sessions through our network of volunteer providers at St. Vincent’s. While Wiley had been doing his regular physical therapy sessions, his condition wasn’t showing any improvement. It wasn’t until we learned that Wiley was without a home and sleeping on friend’s couches, that we […]
Editorial by the Florida Times-Union Editorial Board It’s a well-known fact that uninsured Jacksonville residents use the emergency room too often for primary care services. Unfortunately, Jacksonville has too many uninsured residents. About 1 in 6 adults in Duval County don’t have health insurance. Many of them are low-wage earners. And pandemic, which is causing […]
“Rebecca” (name withheld for confidentiality) was referred from Baptist Beaches in early 2020 with a diagnosis of advanced stomach cancer. After enrolling in the WeCareJax Cancer Care Cohort for uninsured adults, she received surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation from our partner Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center. They provided compassionate care at no cost to Rebecca or […]
For “Beth” (name withheld for confidentiality), her first intake began at the HOPE Van, a medical outreach program through Sulzbacher Clinics that utilizes trained medical outreach specialists to engage individuals who are living on the street. The team discovered her hypertension was so severe she required immediate emergency support. That was two years ago in […]
