The Health Alliance for the Uninsured works collaboratively with community partners to improve collaboration and coordination of resources to improve health services. Below are current projects and future projects.

Current Projects

Cooperative Central Pharmacy – a unique public/private partnership, the Cooperative Central Pharmacy is open Mondays and Wednesdays serving low-income and uninsured persons and provides bulk medications to free clinics for dispensing to patients. By working together, Oklahoma County Social Services Department, Good Shepherd Ministries and HAU, with critical support by funding partners, are helping solve access issues related to medications.

CareScope Data System is a web-based patient and clinic information system that HAU purchased to provide without cost to HAU-affiliated free clinics. Use of CareScope can improve record keeping related to measurements of patient health outcomes, track volunteer services and the value of services provided to patients. In 2011, CareScope and SMRTNet, the Secure Medical Records Transfer Network serving most central Oklahoma hospitals will be interfaced to improve patient safety and quality of care.

Diabetes Wellness Project brings help and hope to hundreds of free clinic patients each year. Skilled Certified Diabetes Educators, dietitians, fitness experts, and health care providers lead patients through a 4 session participatory educational program designed to increase knowledge and support free clinic patients, and their families, striving to stay healthy while living with an expensive, long-term illness. Results and feedback indicate this program changes lives. 

Care Connection is HAU’s system for matching free clinic patients with needs beyond the clinic capacity, with community providers that can help meet those needs. Free clinic patient needs include specialists, diagnostic procedures, and surgical procedures. The Care Connection has begun to assist with needs but must grow to include many more resources. HAU’s Board of Directors believes in HAU’s ability to be a catalyst for strengthening the volunteer culture in Central Oklahoma