These are all socioeconomic reasons.”Īt MedNorth, 91 full- and part-time employees handle medical and administrative duties that encompass family medicine, behavioral health, pediatrics, podiatry, dental care and pharmacy.
In North Carolina, children of color are 2.4 times more likely to die than a white baby, said Brown, “and there’s no scientific reason for that. Novant and MedNorth will also work with third parties that can help patients access healthful sources of food, safer housing, substance abuse programs and other resources that help thwart disease. Staffing levels for the clinics have not been finalized, but each physician is going to handle 1,800 to 2,000 patients, he estimated.
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Pediatrics may take the form of a pediatrician or family practitioners, who are “trained in the full scope of family practice to include adults, children, infants and expectant mothers,” Brown said. And then, the behavioral health component may very well start out with licensed clinical social workers or other advanced practice providers.” We want to be able to have access for pediatric patients as well. That may be family medicine or internal medicine. “Basic primary care results in upstream prevention and basically creates health, as opposed to a downward spiral to disease” such as hypertension, diabetes and infant mortality.Īt the two Jordan clinics, he said, “We’re going to be looking at the primary care physician as an anchor. “The first and most pressing need is basic primary care,” Brown said. With an expansion of programs and staff expected to occur later this year at MedNorth and with Novant’s two clinics opening in 20, an increasing number of the 24,000 New Hanover County residents who are uninsured and low-income will be able to access a wider variety of services, said Althea Johnson, MedNorth’s CEO.Īt present, MedNorth sees about 8,000 patients a year and “there’s more than enough room for other providers to come into the area to help take care of the number of patients that need to be taken care of,” she said. So that triangle really creates a foundation of health improvement across three of the four tracts that really had the highest need,” said Philip Brown, Novant Health’s chief community impact officer.Ĭape Fear Clinic, founded in 1991 and located on Doctors Circle near Novant Health-New Hanover Regional Medical Center, rounds out the safety net of health services currently available in New Hanover County. And then in East Wilmington, you’re going to have the second Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic. You’re going to have the MedNorth Qualified Health Center in Northside.
“What you’ll see is that now you’re going to have a Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic at Wilmington Southside.
With the announcement that Novant will build a new Michael Jordan-funded community clinic at Princess Place Drive and North 30th Street following earlier plans for one at Greenfield and 15th, and with MedNorth planning to expand its 25-year-old facility on North Fourth Street, the health organizations are doubling down to meet the needs of at-risk area residents, many of them people of color. Novant Health and MedNorth Health Center are advancing plans to expand the services they provide to individuals and families in some of Wilmington’s poorest neighborhoods.
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