A steep price


Physicians worry about women’s access to care


Sharp funding cuts in state family planning services and changes in a state health program for women threaten women’s access to vital preventive services, Texas physicians say. They say the situation is a crisis and they want lawmakers to restore money to programs that provide low-income women with recommended screen- ings and birth control. Celia Neavel, MD, is the director of the Center for Adolescent Health at People’s Community Clinic in Austin. The clinic has provided primary care to medically underserved and uninsured Central Texans for 42 years. Dr. Neavel says family planning services are part of a “holistic approach to patient care” at the clinic, which 10,000 patients call their medical home. BY CRYSTAL CONDE • photo by matt rainwaters


July 2012 TEXAS MEDICINE 19


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