HOPE CLINIC OF MCKINNEY

Hope Clinic is aiming to increase access to quality health care services for uninsured patients.

Hope Clinic exists to share the love of Jesus Christ by partnering with our community to provide quality, compassionate healthcare and resources to our medically underserved neighbors.

Our vision is to see that all McKinney residents have access to affordable, quality health care.

Effectively, Hope Clinic seeks to do this by becoming a medical home for patients who would otherwise not receive preventative care and wellness education due to a lack of resources.

Hope Clinic operates a faith-based, free medical, vision, and behavioral health clinic for under-resourced, uninsured patients that aims to strategically grow into a full-time clinic. Health care services include: primary care, optometry, prescription assistance, counseling, spiritual care, and resource/specialty care referral.

Hope Clinic partners with key community agencies to ensure patients receive quality healthcare services, including but not limited to: Quest Diagnostics, Touchstone Imaging, Project Access, and McKinneyCares Pharmacy. The clinic also works with Americares, Direct Relief, Map International, and St. Vincent de Paul Pharmacy to obtain donated medication at no charge for patients. Other major partners have also included Texas Health Resources’ Mobile Mammography Program, Moncrief Cancer Center, Baylor Scott & White, the Baptist Immigration Center, LifePath, Rosa Es Rojo, One Heart McKinney, Community Garden Kitchen, The Samaritan Inn, Community Lifeline, Community Food Pantry, and McKinney ISD.

In addition to great community partnerships, the clinic is able to deliver services through a robust volunteer base, totaling about 100 individuals. Many of our medical providers, nurses, support staff, interpreters, patient advocates and clerical staff are volunteers that work alongside a paid staff. These individuals are the heartbeat of the clinic and make Hope Clinic a success. More volunteers continue to steadily join the team, including medical specialists who agree to see patients in their offices as referrals.

The clinic has had six successful years of fundraising, partnership building and grant writing. Due to these resources, plans to expand and enhance existing services are moving forward. We continue to track patient health metrics for chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension as well as use patient surveys to demonstrate satisfaction and decreases in emergency room visits.

Hope Clinic is meeting the needs of its patients, providing a primary care medical home for a community that would otherwise not have an option. Since opening, Hope Clinic has provided more than 9,450 appointments and served approximately 2,176 unduplicated, uninsured patients who otherwise would have either gone without or to an emergency room (ER) for basic medical care. In the United States, an emergency room visit costs $2,600 on average, according to the most prominent insurance carrier in the U.S., UnitedHealthcare. The highest rate of ER use has come from Hope Clinic’s service zip code (75069). These unreimbursed costs are passed down to taxpayers through property taxes and increased health insurance rates. Hope Clinic aims to reduce costly ER visits through increased access to quality primary healthcare, thereby promoting the prudent use of community health resources.