Community Health Program
What We Do
The Community Health program strengthens North Carolina’s health care Safety Net infrastructure to ensure that the state’s low income and vulnerable residents (Uninsured, Underinsured, Medicare and Medicaid) have access to affordable and appropriate high quality care.
Community Health Program Profile
Purpose
- Increase access to preventive and primary care services for medically vulnerable patients in primary care locations
- Establish primary care safety net services in counties where no such services exist
- Create new services or augment existing primary care and preventive medical services
- Increase capacity to serve low income patients by enhancing or replacing facilities, equipment, or technologies
Grantees
The following Safety Net organizations, by statute, are eligible for Community Health Grant Funding:
- Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and Look-Alikes
- Free and Charitable Clinics
- Public Health Departments that provide Primary Care
- Rural Health Clinics
- School-Based Health Centers
Community Health Program Coverage in North Carolina
Grant Opportunities for Community Health Program
Contact
North Carolina Community Health Program
Office of Rural Health
2009 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699
919-527-6440
Nicole Fields-Pierre, Community Health Program Manager
919-527-6457
Nicole.Fields-Pierre@dhhs.nc.gov