Our Mission
Welcome to CommWell Health
Since CommWell Health opened its doors in 1977, we have remained committed to providing high-quality, evidenced-based health care in a patient-centered health home setting. CommWell Health has multiple locations throughout southeastern North Carolina. We are a not-for-profit, Federally Qualified Health Center.
CommWell Health delivers culturally sensitive, linguistically appropriate, full life cycle primary, preventative, behavioral, and oral health care and enabling and care coordination/health coach services, regardless of one’s ability to pay. Our goal and commitment is to help our communities get and stay healthy. We believe high-quality health care starts with compassion and dignity and is available when and where you need it.
Our board-certified medical staff and licensed dentists, work in leading-edge facilities throughout southeastern North Carolina, to give you the finest care possible. Most medical and dental insurances are accepted and a sliding scale fee is in place for those without insurance.
Our History
CommWell Health (formerly Tri-County Community Health Center) began as a part-time migrant health program. In 1976, through the federally funded Migrant Health Program, the Health Departments of Sampson and Johnston counties partnered to form a health center for this special-needs population. The Sampson Johnston Migrant Health Clinic was established in a former country store, located three miles west of the town of Newton Grove, on U.S. Highway 13.
The following year, in 1977, Tri-County Community Health Council, Inc. was incorporated, and since that time has grown from its initial site near Newton Grove and Spivey’s Corner to a Health Center system with locations across southeastern North Carolina. In November 2009 the Board of Directors voted to change the organization’s name to CommWell Health to reflect the organization’s growth and expanded services throughout southeastern North Carolina. The name CommWell Health reflects “your community, your wellness, your health.”
Since CommWell Health opened its doors, the organization has been an integral part of the health care of communities in southeastern North Carolina. CommWell Health represents wellness and health as its primary focus and considers the communities it serves as its waiting room.
As a community-governed and owned organization, CommWell Health’s success as an award-winning nonprofit organization has developed on its ability to change to meet the needs of those it serves, while remaining committed to providing evidence based, quality, affordable health care in an environment of service excellence.
At CommWell Health, all people matter!
Impact
CommWell Health has grown from a single health center to multiple locations serving over 22,000 annually throughout a six-county region of southeastern North Carolina. Since its opening, CommWell Health has provided comprehensive services and innovative programs to meet the needs of at-risk populations,
linking them, as needed, to a well-developed and highly responsive referral care network.The Health Center’s profound commitment to the communities it serves is clearly reflected in its rich history and solid mission to increase access to comprehensive primary and preventive health care and to improve the health status of our community, especially for the underserved and vulnerable.
