How Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist ’s Care Plus program empowers patients and prevents readmissions

After struggles with severe vision loss and worsening kidney failure, a provider referred a patient without health insurance to Care Plus, a program based at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Downtown Health Plaza in Winston-Salem. A community health worker helped this patient navigate financial resources and Medicaid applications because his vision and health literacy were limited. A behavioral health team gave him supportive therapy and contacted community agencies for peer support. When the …
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