Provides access to affordable healthcare through a 370 member volunteer network of health care providers. Uninsured residents also receive care coordination and health education services.

Description:
SeaCare Health Services is founded on the belief that our community should provide high quality equitable health care for all. Such health care encompasses those services needed to achieve complete physical, mental and social well-being. SeaCare Health Services is devoted to ensuring that all underserved members of the community have access to optimal health care.

SeaCare Health Services provides access to health care to income eligible, uninsured residents in twenty-one towns in Rockingham County. Health professionals in the area have responded with enthusiastic dedication to the medically needy. Over the years, they have donated over $8,000,000 in health care products and services to local residents.

The program has also built a comprehensive range of preventive and social services, with an emphasis on respectful care coordination and multifaceted health education.

SeaCare Health Services strives to increase people's capacity to maintain and promote their own health. It is truly an example of how many individuals, working together, can accomplish great things.

History:
SeaCare Health Services (formerly Seacoast HealthNet) is an outgrowth of Project GoodHealth, a highly successful physician network model serving uninsured children in the Seacoast area. Project GoodHealth was created in 1992 as a program of Rockingham Community Action, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Project GoodHealth has worked collaboratively with the Portsmouth and Seacoast Regional Visiting Nurses Associations to provide well-child checkups and immunizations. Many private therapists have generously donated counseling services to Project GoodHealth families.

Project GoodHealth has shown that a physician network model can work to bring quality health care to children who do not have adequate access to health care services. Both physicians and patients have been enthusiastic about Project GoodHealth's effectiveness and responsiveness to the needs of families and children.

With Project GoodHealth as a model, SeaCare was founded in 1994 by Rockingham Community Action and a group of private physicians determined to meet the medical needs of uninsured Seacoast adults. A four year planning and start up phase was funded by a major grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with additional funding from the Foundation for Seacoast Health, the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Seacoast United Way, the Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation and other local supporters.

In 2001 SeaCare added two new programs. The first is Medication Bridge, which is a state-wide program to access donated medications from pharmaceutical manufacturers and provide them free to uninsured. SeaCare covers the greater Exeter area with our medication program. The second is the Children's Connection, which helps families apply for the Healthy Kids Gold and Silver programs; and through home visits, office visits and phone calls we educate and motivate whole families to create lasting partnerships with their doctors.

Contact person: Erika Lee, Development Director, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (603) 772-8120

Address:

11 Downing Court Exeter, NH 03833 (See a map)

Directions:

Exeter 11 Downing Court. From route 101: Exit at Route 33/108 and follow signs to Exeter. You will be on Portsmouth Ave. (Route 33/108). There will be a MacDonald's on the right followed by a Real Estate. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: Globe Plaza, 5 minute walk

Miscellaneous Information

Name of Executive Director (or equivalent) if not listed above:
	M. Kathleen Crompton
Type of organization
	Nonprofit 501(c)3
Is your organization a Health and Human Service agency?
	Yes