What: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center's newest network of health care for children in rural Texas. Project CHART, Children's Healthcare Access in Rural Texas, will be launched.
When: 10 a.m. Monday (Aug. 31)
Where: Lubbock, Texas - TTUHSC, 3601 Fourth St. Room 2B152
Stratford, Texas - Stratford Family Medical Clinic, 1220 Purnell Ave.
Event: The F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health through Project CHART, will demonstrate the delivery of a pediatric specialty consultation. The first patient consult for a child will be completed earlier in Stratford, Texas. Stratford is a small rural community at the very top of Texas, more than an hour's drive from Amarillo.
TTUHSC's service region is comprised of 108 counties of which 98 are considered rural. Of those counties in West Texas:
- 22 have no physician
- 10 do not have a physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner
- 21 do not have a community or clinic-based pharmacy
- 32 do not have a hospital
- 75 percent of the region is more than 90 miles from a comprehensive trauma hospital
Project CHART is funded by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and in the next 26 months will establish 29 additional sites to expand and study access to pediatric primary and specialty care for Medicaid enrolled children in rural communities throughout the 108 most western counties in Texas.
