Generosity is Contagious:
Highlighting our awesome supporters!
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Our FY22 Annual Report is here!
Our Annual Report for fiscal year 2021-2022 is now available. Check out some great client success stories, read a message from our Executive Director, and review our statistics, outcomes and financials. Everything we achieved last year was BECAUSE OF YOU, our supporters: more healthy neighbors, more successful parents, more thriving babies, and more innovative partnerships and ideas. Thank you!
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We are extremely grateful to the Merancas Foundation for their gift of $200,000. This grant will provide urgently needed support as we strive to meet the rising necessity associated with the current health crisis, and the significant fundraising challenges we anticipate with the impending recession and the decline of some historical funding sources. The Foundation’s commitment to ensuring that all people have equitable access to basic needs so that vulnerable families and adults have a chance to thrive is deeply apparent in its investments across the region.
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Thank you to Corporate Champion and community health partner Atrium Health for their gift of $25,000 from the Atrium Health Foundation to support our Access to Care fund. This will ensure dozens of patients in our Low-Cost Clinic and Physicians Reach Out programs continue to get the services they need to live, work and succeed. |
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Thank you, faith community! |
Thank you to the congregation and leadership of Myers Park United Methodist Church who made a generous grant to our Nurse-Family Partnership program during the holiday season. We are also grateful to St. Matthew Catholic Church, St. John's Baptist Church, Calvary United Methodist Church, and to Sardis Presbyterian Church for their contributions. Collectively, they provided $14,090 in critical funds for our programs. |
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YOUR IMPACT ON OUR 4 PROGRAMS: |
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Primary care for people with modest resources
On November 30th, we kicked off a new Community Based Health Initiative in the Grier Heights area with our partners ONE Charlotte Health Alliance, Project BOLT, Grier Heights Community Center, CrossRoads Corporation, UNCC College of Health & Human Services, and Next Stage. The mobile health unit is offering care coordination/navigation, basic health screenings, health coaching, behavioral health services, and links to community resources at no charge. We will be offering these services every week to residents in high-needs areas through the end of June, meeting people where they work and live.
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This project is made possible by the financial support of Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, Mecklenburg County ABC Board, Novant Health, United Way of Greater Charlotte and donors like YOU. |
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Comprehensive healthcare for those most in need
DID YOU KNOW? In addition to the life-changing, life-saving difference the program makes in patients’ health, PRO saves the community money in reduced uncompensated medical costs and in lost labor due to illness. An estimated $23 million in hospital costs are avoided per year, with a 63% reduction in emergency department utilization and a 68% reduction in inpatient service utilization (Source: NC Healthcare Association utilization analysis). In an innovative move, Care Ring is using Bamboo Health to identify in real time patients who present to the hospital for care and provide timely outreach, education and coordination that lowers emergency department utilization, prevents hospital readmissions and supports care transitions. And in early 2023, with support from Novant Health, PRO will adopt the Luma Health Patient Success Platform to improve referral coordination, enrollment, and eligibility determination. Integrated with EPIC patient management system, it will also allow for PRO’s staff to spend more time helping patients with health coverage exploration, health system navigation, health coaching and addressing other needs that have a bearing on patient health and well-being.
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Personalized support for at-risk moms
We recently hosted our annual holiday party for the families being served in our Maternal-Child Health programs - Nurse-Family Partnership and A Guided Journey. Families enjoyed photo ops with Frozen characters, Santa and Mrs. Claus; holiday snacks; and gifts such as toys, blankets, coats, and games.
Thank you so much to the army of elves who helped to make this event happen, whether through volunteering or donating: Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office, WellCare,
Novant Health, Queens University of Charlotte Association of Nursing Students (QUCANS), Piedmont Black Nurses Association, Atrium Health, Promising Pages, Mint Hill Athletic Association's Fast Pitch Softball group, our NFP-CAB and Board of Directors members, D. Culp, Paula Culp, Project Glimmer, South Mecklenburg Presbyterian Church, Myers Park United Methodist Church, American Red Cross Greater Carolinas, Charlotte Radiology, Quirky Quilters, United Way of Greater Charlotte, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and our staff, particularly our maternal-child health teams, who worked for months to make this a special day for our families.
Photos by staff member Norika Fisher.
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Support for new and expecting parents
Nathali was just two weeks post-partum with her first baby when she started working with AGJ's Erika in May. She had learned about the program from one of our community partners. Overjoyed to be a new mom to baby Sophia, Nathali was eager to learn about how she could be the best caregiver and provider to her child. Erika showed her how to navigate and access local resources and made referrals to an array of social support services to help her meet her and her baby's needs. Erika also provided information on new baby care, safe sleeping practices, developmental milestones, and invited Nathali to a breastfeeding seminar, which she attended. Now eight months old, Sophia is happy and thriving, with proud mom Nathali cheering her on at every turn. Erika said of Nathali, "She is really enjoying motherhood. She is always open to sharing and looks forward to our meetings." Looking towards the future, Nathali hopes to find work in her career field of Computer Science when she's ready to return to the workforce full-time.
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CHANGING LIVES, SAVING LIVES:
Welcome our new Physicians Reach Out providers!
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Thank you to these generous medical practices & providers who have recently signed up to donate care for our most in-need patients. Collectively, the providers below have committed to see 110 of our patients over the next year! BECOME A PRO PROVIDER.
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Sleep Medicine - various locations
Bianca Stewart, MD
Krystal Henley Vaughn, FNP
Deborah Hugh, PA-C
Kelli Duncan, PA-C
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THANK YOU TO OUR CORPORATE CHAMPIONS
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THANK YOU TO OUR CIVIC CHAMPION |
Care Ring is grateful for the extremely generous funding from Mecklenburg County government and its citizens as a trusted provider for our neighbors facing the challenges of poverty who need access to medical care. |
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Care Ring is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, tax ID# 56-0621073.
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