Virginia Health Care Foundation | Serving more than 500,000 uninsured or medically underserved Virginians

Alleghany Highlands Free Clinic
VHCF funding allowed this Free Clinic to add a full-time physician's assistant and expand clinic services.
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Bedford Community Health Foundation
VHCF has enabled the Bedford Community Health Foundation to expand its services for the uninsured and underserved. One grant funded primary dental care for at-risk, underserved school age and Head Start children through a dental trailer at the Bedford Primary School. An earlier grant helped establish 'Bedford Ride', a program that provides non-emergency medical transportation to residents of Bedford City and County.
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Bradley Free Clinic
Funding helped establish a dental preceptorship program, through which VCU students and Virginia Western dental hygiene students worked to expand the clinic's dental services. Additional VHCF funding helped to develop a physician referral network and in-kind commitments of ancillary services from local health care facilities.
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Carilion Clinic - Pediatric Dental Program
VHCF funding helped expand Carilion Dental Care - Pediatrics, a hospital-based program providing comprehensive dental care to children of low-income families in the Roanoke area.
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Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital
With a VHCF RxRelief Virginia grant, the hospital established a Medication Assistance Program to help patients obtain the medications they desperately need. The Hospital is now able to provide for more patients with the addition of a full-time Medication Assistance Caseworker (MAC) to assist hundreds of eligible individuals from Giles, Craig and Monroe Counties. The MAC assists with accessing free medications from pharmaceutical companies’ patient assistance programs via The Pharmacy Connection software provided by VHCF. Additional VHCF Project Connect funding supported efforts to enroll children in state-sponsored health insurance.
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Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital
VHCF Project Connect funding supported efforts to enroll area children in state-sponsored health insurance. In addition, Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital was able to add a medication assistance caseworker through an RxRelief Virginia grant, enabling it to help chronically ill, uninsured area residents receive their medications.
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Carilion New River Valley Medical Center
Carilion New River Valley Medical Center received an RxRelief Virginia grant to underwrite a Medication Assistance Caseworker (MAC) position. Using VHCF’s Pharmacy Connection software, the program helps over 1,200 chronically ill patients each year receive their medications at little to no cost. These patients are uninsured or have no drug coverage.
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College of Health Sciences' Physician Assistant Program
A 1995 grant from VHCF helped the College of Health Sciences in Roanoke begin the Commonwealth's first physician's assistant school.
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Free Clinic Consortium of the New River Valley
VHCF funding helped bring area free clinics together to explore ways to create interoperability by streamlining operations, sharing resources, and removing some barriers to care.
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Free Clinic of Franklin County
VHCF funding enabled the Free Clinic of Franklin County to hire a part-time nurse practitioner, allowing the clinic to see more new patients, expand the number of visits available to current patients and provide greater continuity of care to the chronically ill.
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