Albemarle Hospital Foundation's
Community Care Clinics
Albemarle Hospital Foundation Board
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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Albemarle Hospital Foundation
PO Box 1412
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
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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.
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