CONTACT: Amber Bradford, 410-871-6836
ABradford@CarrollHospitalCenter.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Westminster, Md. – (October 4, 2007) — Access Carroll, Inc. — a non-profit organization providing free health care to uninsured, low-income Carroll County residents who meet certain eligibility requirements — was awarded a $30,000 grant recently from the Quality Health Foundation. The grant funding will go toward funding a full-time medication coordinator/medical assistant position that will provide free and low-cost medications for patients.

The Quality Health Foundation (QHF) is the mission arm for Delmarva Foundation, a not-for-profit organization committed to improving the quality of health care. QHF has conducted and evaluated health care quality improvement initiatives for more than 30 years.

Access Carroll, Inc. — a joint venture between Carroll Hospital Center, Carroll County Health Department and the Partnership for a Healthier Carroll County, Inc. — was one of six health care organizations to receive grant money from QHF, for a total of $230,000 awarded in grants in 2007.

Founded in 2005, Access Carroll, Inc. is a joint venture between Carroll Hospital Center, the Carroll County Health Department and the Partnership for a Healthier Carroll County, Inc. Access Carroll, Inc. provides free health care to uninsured, low-income Carroll County residents who meet certain eligibility requirements.

Carroll Hospital Center, founded in 1961 as Carroll County General Hospital, is a nonprofit, acute care facility offering a continuum of services, including comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and community programs.

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