SeaCare Health Services
SeaCare Health Services is founded on the belief that our community should provide high quality equitable health care for all. Such health care encompasses those services needed to achieve complete physical, mental and social well-being. SeaCare Health Services is devoted to ensuring that all underserved members of the community have access to optimal health care.
Description:
SeaCare Health Services provides access to health care, through a volunteer network, to income eligible, uninsured residents in twenty-one towns in Rockingham County. SeaCare’s volunteer network includes over 380 primary and specialty physicians, nurse practitioners, mental health therapists, dentists, chiropractors and holistic health practitioners that deliver health services to SeaCare participants for a minimal fee, usually a small co-pay. Together, they have cared for thousands of uninsured adults and children, bringing the total amount of donated health care products and services to over $15 million dollars.
The program has also built a comprehensive range of preventive and social services, with an emphasis on respectful care coordination and multifaceted health education.
SeaCare Health Services strives to increase people's capacity to maintain and promote their own health. It is truly an example of how many individuals, working together, can accomplish great things.
History:
Prior to the creation of SeaCare, many private health professionals provided free care to low-income people. Unfortunately, inequities in the distribution of free care to patients burdened some health professionals more than others since they had no systematic way of determining who was truly in need. In response to this issue, a community task force was formed in the late 1980’s (comprised of health and human service providers), to address the needs of the uninsured in the Seacoast area. Their idea was to develop a coordinated system to screen and refer indigent uninsured patients through a pro bono volunteer physician network. After three years of planning, “Project GoodHealth” received funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) in 1992 to provide access to health care for children in six Seacoast towns. In 1994, Project GoodHealth evolved into SeaCare when additional funding was received from RWJ to expand medical and mental health services to adults and children throughout 21 towns in Rockingham County.
Each year, SeaCare has approximately 1,600 - 2,000 active participants that receive access to health care and individualized care coordination services. It is the goal of the Care Coordination team to help participants understand the health care system and how to best utilize the various resources available to each person. Through Care Coordination, participants experience increased overall well-being, employability and standard of life as a result of the access to both preventive and ongoing health care.
In 2001 SeaCare added two more programs. The first is the Greater Seacoast Medication Bridge Program, which is a program to help eligible uninsured and underinsured participants of all ages receive needed prescription medications. The second is the Children's Connection, which provides home visiting and care coordination services, links to community resources, assistance with the New Hampshire Healthy Kids application process and a variety of health education programs including asthma management, attention deficit disorder and parenting.
Contact people:
Office fax number: (603) 772-8120
Address:
Web Site: http://www.SeaCareHealthServices.org
Directions:
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Exeter
11 Downing Court. From route 101: Exit at Route 33/108 and follow signs to Exeter. You will be on Portsmouth Ave. (Route 33/108). There will be a MacDonald's on the right followed by a Real Estate. . . (more)
Nearest Bus Stop: Globe Plaza, 5 minute walk |
Miscellaneous Information
| Name of Executive Director (or equivalent) if not listed above: |
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M. Kathleen Crompton
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| Type of organization |
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Nonprofit 501(c)3
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| Is your organization a Health and Human Service agency? |
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Yes
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| Last updated on November 12, 2009 |
