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High Point Regional Adult Health Center (previously High Point Medical Outpatient Clinic) provides health care to the indigent population of the High Point area in Guilford County. Cooperative planning efforts at High Point Regional Health System, Guilford Adult Health and the Guilford County Department of Public Health have assured the availability of this valuable service since 1973.

Purpose
• To provide comprehensive, high quality, ongoing health care for those patients
   determined to be eligible for services.
• To insure continuity of quality care for hospitalized and/or emergency
   department patients who have no private physician and are eligible
   for services.
• To recognize psychological and social problems as well as physical
   illness and to intervene as appropriate.
• To restore and maintain each individual to the fullest possible state
   of well-being.

Services
• Complete physical examination with lab work as needed.
• Diagnosis and treatment of medical illness.
• Pharmacy on-site.
• Referrals are made depending on the needs of the patient.
• Counseling by Health Department Nutritionist within the Center.
• Health Education by nurses who staff the Center.
• Appropriate referral to other community agencies offering additional
   services, including:

          Home Health
          Alcohol Education Center
          Department of Social Services
          Hospice
          Mental Health
          Mobile Meals
          Family Service
          Lion’s Club
          High Point Regional Social Services
          Senior Resources of Guilford
          Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
          Family Planning
          CAP

Who Is Eligible?
Guilford County residents 18 years of age or older having:
• Medicaid - persons currently certified by the Guilford County
   Department of Social Services as eligible for Medicaid.
• County Certification - those certified eligible by DSS according to
   income and reserve scale.

How Do I Apply?
Go to the Guilford County Department of Social Services at 300 South Centennial Street in High Point to apply for service.

Payment
Charges for service are based on the patients ability to pay.
• Medicaid is filed for patients certified as eligible to receive it.
   A co-payment is required by the state for Medicaid prescriptions and
   office visits.
• Medicare is filed for those services covered by the Medicare
   requirement guidelines. A fee schedule is in place for services
   rendered to county-certified patients.

Staff
The staff consists of a Medical Director, Consulting Doctors and Family Nurse Practitioners, with special training in internal medicine. They function as primary care providers under the supervision of the Medical Director, Registered Nurses, Management Support, Registered Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician Unit Coordinator and a Program Manager.