About Us...

Valley Project Access (VPA) grew out of our community’s desire to more appropriately deliver health care to low-income, uninsured residents. The Lower Naugatuck Valley towns (Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Naugatuck, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton) have been greatly impacted by the current economic downturn. There are an estimated 10,200 low-income, uninsured residents under 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL). The ethnic minority groups in the Valley community are over-represented in the underserved towns and they continue to experience disparities in the health problems and their access to and utilization of available health care services.

As a coordinated system of health care for underserved and uninsured patients this model of healthcare includes the collaborative support of physicians, hospitals, primary care clinics and pharmacies and others involved in local patient care.  Valley Project Access is an innovative solution to the uninsurance crisis.  The Project Access system has been implemented in several communities nationally, but the success of our program as the first model of its kind in Connecticut has inspired other similar programs in the state.
 

 

Our Collaborating
Partners...

Our partnerships with the Valley Physician Alliance for Access to Care and Treatment (VPAACT), Griffin Hospital,
Hill Health Center (federally qualified health center), and area organizations have allowed our uninsured residents to receive access
to a coordinated system of care that addresses a wide continuum of their
health care needs.

Click here if you are a provider who would like to get involved.
 

 
 

Our Mission...

The mission of the Valley Project Access (VPA) is to improve access to comprehensive healthcare for uninsured and underinsured residents of Connecticut's Lower Naugatuck Valley.  The VPA program links low-income, uninsured residents to free, high quality specialty care services; necessary ancillary and diagnostic procedures; no/low cost prescription drugs; and available state insurance and assistance programs.

   

Our Program Services...

Valley Project Access program services include:

RReferrals to Valley human services organizations.

RFinancial screening for income eligibility and state entitlement programs.

RReferral to a primary care provider (VPA partnership with Hill Health Center).

RFree speciality care (VPA network of VPAACT volunteer physicians).

RFollow-up care (VPA partner Griffin Hospital has provided automatic access to a generous sliding fee scale for VPA patients who require inpatient, outpatient, laboratory, x-ray, and other diagnostic services).

RPrescription Assistance Programs assist eligible Valley residents to apply for free prescription medications through on-line pharmaceutical patient assistance programs (PAP); 340B Pharmacy Program: and Physician's Rx Care Pharmacy Benefit Program.

RValley Access Management System (VAMS) centralized referral and tracking system.
 

 

    
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