Medical Care for Children Partnership

From Fairfax Underground Wiki

The Medical Care for Children Partnership is a community partnership administered by the Fairfax County Office of Partnerships that is dedicated to providing medical and dental services to children of the working poor of Fairfax County who otherwise are ineligible to receive health care offered through Medicaid or other private and public sources. The aim of the MCCP is to meet the health care needs of all Fairfax County children through the continuous development of partnerships between the government, the medical, business and foundation communities, thereby administering the most cost efficient method to ensure a healthy population. The program serves children who are from 1 month to 18 years in age who live in Fairfax County and are attending school, if school age. They are children of the "working poor" of Fairfax County, whose income does not exceed 250% of poverty ($50,000 for a family of four).

Participating physicians, dentists, pharmacies, labs and Kaiser Permanente provide services at reduced fees and county government covers all administrative costs. All donations to directly to providing medical and dental services at a cost of $325 per year per child, far below the national average of $1,356. A winner of numerous area and national awards, including the prestigious Ford Foundation/Harvard University Award for Innovations in Local Government, the MCCP has been replicated throughout the United States and is the model for other Office of Partnerships initiatives.

Each year the Medical Care for Children Partnership sponsors a fundraiser to raise awareness of the cause and money to provide health care fo children.

Official Web site: [1] Information about enrolling in MCCP: [2]