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DAKOTA COMMUNITIES ACCESS PROGRAM

In October 2003, Dakota Medical Foundation was awarded a $2.6 million grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services' Bureau of Primary Health Care. This grant made possible the Dakota Community Access Program (DCAP). The purpose of DCAP is to improve access to, and coordination of, healthcare services for the uninsured and underinsured in central and eastern North Dakota.

Approximately 51,920 North Dakotans are uninsured according to the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota. Click here for a summary of the Center’s study Health Care Access in North Dakota: Characteristics of the Uninsured.

DCAP has four primary goals including public health insurance enrollment, prescription assistance, dental care access and diabetes quality improvement. DCAP works through Community Resource Coordinators (CRCs) to help reach its goals.

Use the map to locate a Community Resource Coordinator in your community.

Dakota Communities Access Program is a Dakota Medical Foundation initiative to improve healthcare access. Dakota Medical Foundation welcomes your ideas on how it can further address and improve access to healthcare services.