Tri-County Project Care : About the Program

About the Program

Tri-County Project Care (TCPC) founded in January 2002 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community-based organization formed to deliver quality health care to residents of Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties. TCPC's initial three-year pilot program, which ended in June 2005, provided access to quality health care services at an affordable price to more than three thousand eligible employed tri-county residents. Based on this foundation, TCPC, in collaboration with the tri-county area's small business and health care community have developed a new pilot program. This pilot program was launched in March 2006.

Additionally, we received approval from the State's Commission on Healthcare Access to initiate this program under the direction of the Department of Health and Human Services. Our new program includes both employer and member (employee) prepayments to assist with the program funding. The program goal is to demonstrate the economic and health impact of preventive care on a population, which up to the present has used the emergency department of a hospital as its primary care physician or has allowed its health status to decline to the point where any health care need, is of a catastrophic nature.

Focusing on prevention, education, positive lifestyle choices and appropriate utilization of services, the program seeks to create an overall health care system-wide change from a disease based reimbursement model to a wellness-based model. TCPC is continuing its efforts and striving to expand its capabilities to provide access to health care to a larger number of working uninsured.

For more information about Tri-County Project Care please call (843) 388-9719.