Cape Fear Clinic provides compassionate and affordable patient-centered healthcare to low income individuals and families in the Cape Fear region regardless of their ability to pay.
Cape Fear Clinic is a charitable clinic with on-site medical, pharmacy, and mental health services. We serve adults in New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, and Columbus counties who have Medicaid or who are uninsured and have incomes of no more than 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. In 2018, we will begin serving pediatric patients as well.
The majority of our patients are the working poor, who receive no health insurance benefits through their employers and who do not make enough money to qualify for health insurance subsidies through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
WHY WE EXIST:
Healthcare is scare for the poor in North Carolina. When the N.C. General Assembly decided not to expand Medicaid in 2010 as part of the ACA, the poorest of the poor were left without any health insurance. Too often these uninsured individuals rely upon hospital emergency departments: a very expensive option for primary care.
OUR VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY:
The Cape Fear Clinic can treat a patient for several years for the same cost as ONE emergency visit. For every dollar spent at Cape Fear Clinic, we provide $18.35 in services to our patients [2016 data].
We also help our patients learn to manage their health, so they become better able to work and contribute to our community.
OUR STORY:
The Cape Fear Clinic has been serving our community since 1991, providing a full-time, full-service medical home for thousands of low-income and uninsured local residents.
In 2016, the last year for which full data is available, we served 1,371 patients in a total of 4,737 appointments with the help of our paid staff and a volunteer staff of 177.
Also in 2016, our pharmacy dispensed 12,981 non-controlled substance prescriptions to our patients, helping them recover from acute illnesses as well as control chronic conditions.
WE NEED YOUR HELP:
As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Cape Fear Clinic actively seeks foundation supports, grants, and individual donations to support the work we do. Your gift has a tremendous multiplier effect on the health of our patients and, ultimately, on the vitality and economy of our community.
