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This report contains information and highlights from 2008 at Access to Care.

Testimonials

“This letter is to say that I am returning my Access to Care card because I don’t need it anymore. Thank you so much for the help and coverage the past two years. Access to Care was a life-saver during a very difficult time. I now have a full-time job with benefits. I feel as if I have something of a future ahead of me. Thank you for a program that helps keep both your health and dignity. I know I will make it, thanks to programs like yours.”


About Us
Access to Care is a model, cost-controlling primary health care program specifically targeting low-income, uninsured individuals living in suburban Cook County, Illinois and northwest Chicago. (North of North Avenue AND west of Pulaski Road)


The program is a unique public/private partnership making primary health care and the ancillary pharmacy, laboratory and radiology services available to low-income individuals. Access to Care provides affordable diagnosis and treatment for illness to individuals and families for a small co-payment per visit, procedure or prescription medication.


Access to Care contracts with local providers throughout Cook County and pays them a discounted rate to provide services. Physicians volunteer to participate and choose the number of patients they will add to their practice. They are nominally compensated.


Over 90,000 people in suburban Cook County and northwest Chicago have been served in the 20 year history of Access to Care.


The need for the services of Access to Care continues to increase. It is estimated that there are nearly 46 million Americans without health insurance. Almost 400,000 of those individuals live in suburban Cook County and Northwest Chicago. The program annually serves about 13,000 low income individuals.



2010 Officers

Joseph P Flanagan Jr.
Chairperson
JP Flanagan Enterprises, Inc.

Christine R Blue BSN, RN, MHA
Secretary
Park Forest Health Department


Michael B King MA
Treasurer
Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council

Mark Grach MBA
Immediate Past Chairperson
DLK Solutions, LLC


Jeffrey Schmidt
Chairperson Elect
Humana, Inc.



2010 Board of Directors

Venoncia M Bate'
Alexian Brothers Medical Center

Christine R Blue BSN, RN, MHA
Park Forest Health Department


David N Carvalho JD
Illinois Department of Public Health

Joseph P Flanagan Jr.
JP Flanagan Enterprises, Inc.


Rommel Garcia MBA
Maranon Capital, L.P.

Mark Grach MBA
DLK Solutions LLC


Steve Hamman MBA
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois

Maurice Lemon MD, MPH
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County


Stephen A Martin Ph.D.
Cook County Department of Public Health

J. Paul O'Keefe MD
Loyola University Medical Center


Margaret Saunders MS, RD, LD
Community & Economic Development Association of Cook County, Inc.

Jeff Schmidt
Humana, Inc.


Rob Tannenbaum
The AXL Partners, LLC

Catherine Tymkow ND, APN
Governors State University


Robert Wharton MPA
Community & Economic Development Association of Cook County, Inc

Arnold Widen MD, MACP
Office of the Illinois Attorney General



2010 Honorary Board Members

Lois Coxworth-Gallagher RN, MS
The Coxworth Group

James A DeNuccio CHE, MBA
American Medical Association


The Honorable Mary McDonald
Cook County Board of Commissioners (retired)

Charles David Hughes Jr.
Community & Economic Development Association of Cook County, Inc. (retired)




Staff Listing

Access to Care Staff
Left to right, Back row, Kate Barnickel, Laverne Jones, Claire Ducote, Gladys Marshall, Zavala Ward, Ronald Petersen, Lori Henkel
Front row, Beatriz Ortega, Kimberly Mertz, Victoria Bigelow, Susan Decker, Linda Paz, not pictured Kathryn Franklin

Victoria Bigelow
President

Kathryn R. Franklin
Chief Operating Officer


Lori Anderson Henkel
Chief Financial Officer

Kate D. Barnickel
Public Relations Manager


Claire Ducote
Senior Program Coordinator

Kimberly A Mertz
Seinor Program Coordinator, Provider Relations/Credentialing


Susan Decker
Vendor/Client Specialist

Ronald Petersen
Network Administrator


Beatriz Ortega
Case Manager

Laverne Jones
Program Coordinator


Linda Paz
Data Entry Clerk

Gladys Marshall
Data Entry Clerk



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