North Carolina’s community health centers play a vital role in our state’s healthcare safety net. They are innovators in healthcare delivery and feature a patient-governed medical home model that utilizes care teams and enabling services to help patients address their medical and social needs.
Today, they play the following role in NC:
- Serve more than 480,000 patients (41% uninsured, 26% Medicaid, 13% Medicare and 20% private insurance).
- Offer sites in 85 of North Carolina’s 100 counties
Provide medical, dental, pharmacy, behavioral health and substance abuse services - Participate in new delivery systems, such as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Accountability Care
- Organizations and a Health Center Controlled Network that analyzes patient data to improve care
- Generate & support over 3,400 jobs across the state
- Have the staff expertise & outreach ability to help patients as the state moves through its Medicaid transformation
Nationally, community health centers: - Produce $24 billion in annual health system savings
- Reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and unnecessary visits to the emergency room;
- Treat patients for a fraction of the average cost of one emergency room visit
- Maintain patient satisfaction levels of nearly 100 percent
- Serve more than one in six Medicaid beneficiaries for less than two percent of the national Medicaid budget
