OIC Family Medical Serves the Uninsured in Rocky Mount, NC

OIC Family Medical Center serves as one of the few primary care providers in the Rocky Mount, NC area willing to see uninsured patients, in spite of other constraints that they face in this economy.

“When you add the number of uninsured to the number of people with public insurance in some way, shape or form, it paints a picture of what we’re struggling with,” Councilman Reuben Blackwell said. “It shows more than 40 percent of our population has income challenges. People who are uninsured are not the extreme poor. They’re people who fall between the cracks, who have been employed and lost their jobs or people who are still employed but by a company that doesn’t offer health insurance.”

Blackwell also is president of the Opportunities Industrialization Center, a local nonprofit that offers affordable health care to low-income people at its Family Medical Center. The center is one a few in the area that offers primary health care to residents without health insurance who can’t afford the bill.