The Indigent Care Collaboration is an organization of “safety net” healthcare providers that work together to increase access to health care, improve quality, and lower costs of providing care to the low-income and uninsured residents of Central Texas. The strength of the ICC is that its core membership includes all of the major safety net providers in a three-county region (Travis, Hays and Williamson Counties) .  St. David’s Health Care System was a charter member when the ICC was organized in 1997.

Through the ICC, competing health care systems with dramatically different individual missions work hand in hand. Working together, the ICC members have successfully attracted substantial amounts of outside funding to the community. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation granted $850,000 to the ICC for infrastructure development. The Health Resources Services Administration, a department of the U.S. Health and Human Services, granted $2 million to support pharmacy initiatives over a four-year period, 2003-2006.

With an additional $2 million grant from HRSA, and an additional $1,050,000 from Ascension Health, the ICC is developing a Master Patient Index/Clinical Data Repository. The repository is an electronic medical records program that collects data from patients seen at all ICC member providers. Ultimately, the program will allow patient records to be easily shared between providers, enhancing continuity of care and increasing efficiency and cost benefit.