Project Care

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Project Care

The Hartford County Medical Association's "Project Care" is a program that serves the medically-indigent in Hartford County.

Working with local clinics like the South Park Inn Medical Clinic, and community health projects like the UConn Migrant Farm Worker Clinics, Project Care helps match physician members with volunteer efforts that serve patients in need.

Although many physicians want to donate time to the community, their schedules are more hectic than ever before.

However, community service doesn't have to be as time-consuming as you might think. Physicians can take part in these efforts and help those who have nowhere else to turn for just a couple of hours 2 or 3 times a year.

HCMA physicians interested in taking part in Project Care and finding out about volunteer opportunities throughout Hartford County can call the executive office at 1.800.541.5083 or can request more information online by filling out the Project Care Request Information Form.

Current Projects

South Park Inn Medical Clinic
This clinic is a non-profit organization established in 1987, that is maintained by the students at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The clinic itself is housed at the South Park Inn homeless shelter in downtown Hartford. The clinic provides free care for men, women and children every Tuesday and Thursday night from 6 p.m. until the last patient is seen. The average commitment for most physicians at South Park Inn is one evening, 2-3 times per year. The physician's job is to listen to presentations from the medical students, visit with each patient briefly, discuss a treatment plan and co-sign student-written notes.

South Park Inn Medical Clinic's wish list

Mobile Migrant Farmworkers Health Clinic
This clinic travels to farms in Windsor, Middletown, Enfield, Suffield and elsewhere to provide healthcare to migrant workers. It was established in 1998 and runs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. to sundown, from mid-June to October. Time commitment needed from physicians range from one night to twice a month. The clinic is maintained by students attending the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine.

Salvation Army Marshall House Pediatric Clinic
This pediatric clinic, established in 1991 and housed at the Marshall House homeless shelter in Hartford, focuses primarily on providing free healthcare to children and adolescents. The clinic is maintained by the students at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and is open September through May, one night a week (Monday or Wednesday) from 6:30 p.m. to approximately 9:30 p.m. Average time commitment needed from physicians is once or twice a year (once in the fall and once in the spring).

YMCA Adolescent Girls' Clinic
This clinic, established in 1995 and housed at the YMCA in Hartford, is maintained by students at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The clinic provides for the health of runaway teenage girls, ages 12-18, at a live-in facility. The clinic is open all year, once a week (Monday or Wednesday), 6:30 p.m. to approximately 9:30 p.m. Time commitment needed from physicians is 1-2 times per year.