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Using a variety of resources, volunteer physicians, dentists, nurses and others provide tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS testing, hold dual diagnosis sessions and conduct hypertension and preventive medication clinics. They teach classes in smoking cessation, diabetes awareness, skin care, disease prevention and nutrition, among other topics.
Outcomes and Evaluations Tracking our effectiveness is essential to continued success. Through collaboration with hospitals and emergency response agencies, the Wake County Detention Facility, the Raleigh Police Department and Emergency Medical Services, we measure each service utilization, the number of homeless in the program, the length of sobriety, and the number who maintain productive employment.
Tracking enables us to continually adjust and improve our services to the
homeless population in the county. The impact of the program on medical care is significant. In the past year, The Healing Place has referred only 25 cases to off-campus, taxpayer supported medical services – half the number from the previous year. As men learn to better care for themselves, as they return to the community free of addictions and the medical issues that accompany them, the use of county medical services should continue to drop. Links to Additional Resources |
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The
on-campus clinic operates with the support and services of the Foundation
of the Wake County Medical Society and its alliance.
