Tarrant County Residents Have Access To Free Health Care, But Some Say Awareness Is A Barrier

Arlington TX

11 October, 2021

7:41 PM

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By Kristen Barton, Fort Worth Report October 11, 2021 As a patient navigator, Shaé Neal sees between 100-150 people with HIV each week. Her job is to help them get the care they need. Although she's able to find the right resources, partly because of her own knowledge, she wants to see Tarrant County do more to make health-care services known. Neal, 65, works for the Tarrant County Public Health Preventative Medicine Clinic. Although there is access to health care for low-income people in Fort Worth, she said, the lack of awareness prevents programs from being fully used. The county provides several services for low-income people, starting with JPS Health Network and North Texas Area Community Health Center. The county's Public Health Department helps provide preventative care, such as HIV care and prevention, STD testing and treatment, and TB testing and treatment. A Women, Infant and Children program also provides nutrition education and food benefits to children and pregnant women. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.