The Albemarle Hospital Foundation was created in 2003. The Community Care Clinic was developed through the Foundation to offer free primary care, prescriptions, and prescription assistance to our region's growing indigent, uninsured, and underinsured population. |
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The Foundation has created Community Care Clinics in each county within its service area: Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank, and Perquimans counties (and played a major role in developing the Community Care Clinic in Dare County).
In its first year alone, the Albemarle Hospital Foundation's Elizabeth City Community Care Clinic filled more than 14,000 non-narcotic prescriptions through its pharmacy; helped clients acquire more than 12,000 prescriptions through a prescription assistance program; and provided more than 930 patients with free medical care - all totaling more than $4.5 million in free healthcare services.
The Foundation's target populations, including minorities and a growing Hispanic population, are experiencing an increase in chronic diseases such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes. The Foundation's Community Care Clinics are developing culturally relevant initiatives that deliver much-needed preventative healthcare to the communities where the need is greatest; we're focusing on Hispanic and African-American outreach programs that target some of the most pressing healthcare issues of these two typically underserved groups.
Albemarle Hospital Foundation is a proud sponsor of Albemarle Health’s Camp NoWeezin.
