Access to Care

By identifying and heading off potentially serious and catastrophic disease early, widening access to care for the uninsured and the working poor helps alleviate suffering and eases our healthcare system’s burden of care.

• Care-A-Van Mobile Clinic
  This traveling medical facility recently assumed full local leadership with Antelope Valley Community Clinic after more than a decade of service under the leadership of Partners' in Care Foundation. The Care-A-Van delivers free basic medical care. screenings, and health education to the uninsured and impoverished working families in rural areas of the Antelope Valley and Eastern Kern County, serving residents who live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. CAV keeps children in school and adults at work to support their families. (more)

Collaboratives

To meet the challenges of increasing diverse population’s healthcare needs, Partners joins hands with several grassroots organizations in innovative initiatives that are pointing the way to solutions.

• Access to Care Collaborative
  ACC is a collaborative of healthcare and faith-based leadership to address the basic health needs of the uninsured population in the San Fernando Valley. In addition to its free Clinic, staffed by volunteer physicians and healthcare professionals, the ACC is focusing on diabetes, a major health issue in this population, through prevention, education, and screenings. New strategic planning is underway to broaden collaborative participation into a larger geographic area of the San Fernando Valley. (more)
  
  
• Antelope Valley Partnership for Health (AVPH)
  Fifty participating agencies coordinate with the County Department of Health in addressing health and social-services needs in this fast-growing but underserved rural area. After more than seven years of growth and success, AVPH has now taken a full leadership role in the Antelope Valley Healthcare Community. (more)
  
  
• Black Infant Health
  Working through Antelope Valley churches and community groups, the Black Infant Health program helps reduce the high rates of African American infant mortality and low birth weights and improves related health indicators among African American women who are pregnant or parenting children up to age 2. (more)