Announcing our new name - RightCare!
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About Us
Announcing our new name!
Wake County Medical Society Community Health Foundation is now RightCare – a name that more accurately represents who we are, an organization dedicated to ensuring those we serve have access to the right medical care at the right time when they need it most. While our name has changed, our commitment to serve is deeper than ever. We continue to connect uninsured patients with providers to access specialty medical care and secure a primary care home through our signature program – Project Access.
Stay tuned over the coming months as we continue to roll out our new identity!
Our Origin
While the WCMS Community Health Foundation no longer has ties to the Medical Society, we continue in our partnership with the generosity of many of it's members who donated thousands of dollars of care to the low-income, under and uninsured residents of Wake County through our programs. We are a 501(c)3 organization that provides access to health care for the underserved in Wake and Franklin counties.
Our Vision
A healthy, productive, empowered and engaged community.
Our Mission
To improve the value of health care for our community by advancing high quality, pateint-centerd, and coordinated care.
The Mission of Project Access of Wake County
The mission of Project Access is to improve the health of our community by creating access to care and services for those most in need.
Access to Donated Specialty and Diagnostic Care
Since 2000, Wake physicians and clinical staff have donated care to low-income uninsured men, women, and children through Project Access of Wake County.
We are leaders in collaborating with community health clinics and Wake County Hospitals to deliver care to many who had little hope for feeling better or receiving extraordinary treatment.
Lives have been changed because of their passion to help people get and stay well.
Enrollment begins with establishing a Primary Care Home
Project Access of Wake County is a physician referral program, which means qualified enrollees can only be referred into the program due to medical necessity as ordered by an attending physician.
Project Access enrollees are screened to meet eligibility requirements including:
- At or below 250% of the Federal Poverty Level
- Do not have access to affordable health insurance
- Are ineligible for Medicaid, Medicare or other funded healthcare programs*
*Applicants must have completed a Medicaid application within one year of application or have been screened and confirmed ineligible.
Patient Navigation
We partner with hospital case management teams and other community-based organizations in assisting uninsured, low-income residents of Wake County get established with a primary care home.
Referrals for uninsured low-income Wake County residents needed a primary care home can be made using our HIPAA secure form found here: