We all know someone who is uninsured. We also know people who have insurance that didn’t fully cover the care they needed. Whether uninsured or underinsured, KCHA's Hale Lea Medicine clinic wants to provide the best care for everyone.
The difficulty is that by providing uncompensated and undercompensated care to our community, the clinic operates at a deficit. Reimbursement for services that are paid by local insurance companies are so grossly insufficient that many clinics have had to permanently shut their doors. Add to this the burden of providing uncompensated services and we have a community access to care crisis.
The Healthcare For Everyone initiative seeks to offset this problem by making up the loss your community clinic incurs. This way the medical clinic itself will not have to underwrite insufficient insurance reimbursements, nor the uninsured members of our community. Instead, the community, through grants, volunteers and donations, can help sustain quality medical care in its own backyard.
This partnership between the community and its local medical providers is the hallmark of a sustainable healthcare model. One we hope will keep local medical services from sliding off the precipice, and keep quality medical care in our neighborhoods for now and for our children to come.
Fund a Need
Who needs help? It could be a child who has been injured, a woman who is pregnant, an elderly patient with pneumonia. Almost anything.
How much is needed? It depends on how many people you want to help.
- $85 donation can pay for the care of one or two adults or children who are underinsured or uninsured.
- $500 can pay for six to ten community members who need medical help but cannot afford care.
- $1,000 can pay for ten women needing female healthcare services
- $4,000 can pay for one month of medical services to everyone walking into the clinic who would otherwise be unable to afford medical care
- $48,000 can pay for all undercompensated and uncompensated medical care rendered by Hale Lea Medicine to our community members in a given year.
Please contact James Winkler if you are interested in supporting this healthcare initiative by calling 808-828-2885, or emailing winkler@kauai-medical.org
Alternatively, donations can be made online right now. Thanks for contributing to your communities healthcare needs.