Utah Partners for Health provides access to healthcare for those in need by filling gaps in Utah’s healthcare system. Our unique model works within for-profit clinics, allowing us to leverage $6.32 worth of direct healthcare services for every dollar donated.
Medical director Brian K. Zehnder, M.D., founded UPFH when he realized the tremendous need for medically underserved populations in our community. Initially operating out of just two clinics, UPFH now works within seventeen. We also travel with a partnering mobile clinic to disenfranchised communities, where individuals lack access to healthcare due to cultural disparities. Most lack both income as well as insurance.
Since our inception in 2003, we’ve funded over $4.5 million in healthcare costs. Our services continue to expand every year, and in 2010 alone, we provided access to care for 8,227 patient visits, valued at $1,132,739 in healthcare costs. UPFH has experienced tremendous growth, and during our first 6 years we averaged a 67% increase in patients served annually.
UPFH is able to leverage $6.32 in direct medical care for every $1.oo donated because our medical providers and lab companies volunteer the majority of their time and expenses to the growing number of uninsured Utahns. The uniqueness of the Utah Partners for Health access model is that we work within “for-profit” clinics and with healthcare professionals who choose to donate charity care to those in need. We, therefore, do not pay for buildings, addition supplies, or staffing, and 95% of funding goes directly toward healthcare services.
Our Providers
We partner with the best healthcare providers in Utah. They donate an average of 67% of their customary billing to our program, making our organization of of the most efficient access models for the medically uninsured.
Our Services
Utah Partners for Health offers access to full primary healthcare services for acute, chronic, and mental illnesses. Ancillary services include lab work, radiology, ultrasound, and mammography. For those who qualify, other services include counseling, physical therapy, dental care, eye care, and urgent care. UPFH also offers a prenatal clinic for any uninsured woman living in Utah. These services include everything an expecting mother needs throughout her pregnancy, including 11 prenatal visits, 2 postpartum visits, ultrasounds and lab-work.
Our mobile medical unit reaches disparate communities that do not have access to medical services. Our community impact in Salt Lake County is remarkable, with an average growth in patients seen each year at 57% annually.
For a complete list of services, and to determine if you are eligible to participate in our program, please click on the UPFH services link above.
