HIGHLIGHTS - NC FREE CLINICS

• North Carolina has 79+ free clinics and pharmacies serving at least 79 counties in North Carolina.
• Clinics offer an array of primary care services, chronic disease management, medication dispensing and management, and dental care. Some clinics also provide specialty care, such as cancer screening (e.g., Pap smear screening), mental health care, and vision screening.
• Clinics provided an estimated 624,629 hours of free care to low-income, uninsured, and medically under-insured people of North Carolina and neighboring states.
• The uninsured and underinsured of North Carolina made 267,753 visits to free clinics last year.
• More than $71 million in free health care services were delivered to uninsured patients by free clinics.
• 462,988 prescriptions were filled by free clinics last year.
• For every $1 of a clinic’s cash budget, volunteers and paid health care professionals provided $4.82 of free care through medical, dental, and/or pharmacy services.

Note: Statistics are based on free clinic survey of 2007 data - Annual Report available soon here.