CARE Rural Health Mission
CARE Rural Health Mission
Not-for-profit
Year launched: 2008Approach
Target geography
Target Population
Target income level
- Bottom 20%
Health focus
- Primary care
CHMI PLUS Status
Profile Completeness Rating
Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting
Summary
CARE Rural Health Mission is a not for profit organization funded by Care Hospitals non-profit arm CARE Foundation and specializing in telemedicine solutions to link rural health workers in Maharasthra and Andhra Pradesh with doctors at a district-level hub.Program goals
Our broad vision is to enable affordable healthcare for the common man at his doorstep.
Key program components
Care Arogya Kendra:
The Care Foundation started the Care Arogya Kendra program in Maharashtra in February of 2008. The project delivers health care to 50 villages using a community-based, technology-leveraged outreach model where grassroots community workers are trained as "Village Health Champions" (VHCs) and equipped with hand held devices, enabling doctors at district-level hubs to remotely attend to the patient in the village. This averts the need for travel to a clinic and therefore the loss of wages.
If the illness requires greater medical attention, patients are referred to the CARE Arogya Clinic located at Yavatmal for further investigations and treatment or to CARE hospitals at Nagpur and Hyderabad, for specialty and superspecialty care, respectively. Currently, more than 65% of primary care treatments are addressed at village level by healthworker through remote doctor support and 35% are treated at referral primary health centers.
Health Microinsurance:
CARE Foundation has also partnered with the Centre for Insurance and Risk Management (CIRM) to create a microinsurance product sold by the VHCs in the form of pre-paid health cards. Individuals who purchase the cards receive services on a fee-for-services basis at nominal prices from the VHC network, plus assistance to obtain hospitalization wherever required. Currently, this project is supported by ILO Micro-insurance Facility. The program has already enrolled 600 families (i.e 3000 lives) in the last 10 months through a network of 41 health workers for its stand alone primary healthcare product.
The product costs Rs 300 for a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 children) and covers consultation, drugs, blood tests, IV fluids and injections with a sum assured of Rs 2500 and with provisions of cashless service and no limits on frequency of usage.
The current micro-insurance indicators are as follows:
Penetration/coverage: 6%
Per-capita frequency: 0.67
Incurred claims ratio: 33%
Average claim cost per patient: Rs 48.
To learn more about developments and lessons from project, you can visit CARE Hospital's Learning Journey page at the ILO Microinsurance Innovation Facility's website. As of July 1, 2009, CARE Foundation has also taken up the operations of the health module of the Byraju Foundation.
Care Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that has more than a decade of experience in research and technology development for health care and has been a ground force for the Care Hospitals, a chain of for-profit tertiary care hospitals spanning across south and central India.
Technology
Financials
Parent Organizations
- Care FoundationNot-for-profit