Atlanta (June 23, 2023) – Piedmont’s community benefit program, which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities that Piedmont serves, has made investments in 21 community clinics, totaling $200,000.

Those organizations serve the local communities where each of Piedmont’s 22 hospitals are located. The investments range between $5,000 and $10,000 per organization.

“Piedmont is driving real change in Georgia and these clinics play an important role in providing access to health care in our communities,” said Thomas Worthy, vice president of government and external affairs at Piedmont. “The communities that our hospitals are a part of become even stronger when nonprofit organizations, like the great ones with which we are partnering, become healthier and livelier through these investments.”

Among those receiving investments were:

• Center for Black Women’s Wellness: Founded in 1996 in Atlanta, this organization’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of underserved Black women and their families.
• Mercy Health Center: This organization has been providing free medical, dental, pharmacy, counseling, and health education to the uninsured of Clarke, Barrow, Jackson, Madison, Oglethorpe, and Oconee counties for more than two decades.
• Harrisburg Family Health Care: This nonprofit organization is a free and charitable clinic located in Augusta.
• Macon Volunteer Clinic: This clinic provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as non-narcotic medication assistance, to uninsured, working adults who live in Macon-Bibb or Twiggs County and whose income is equal to or less than 200% of the federal poverty level.
• MercyMed of Columbus: The nonprofit provides affordable, quality healthcare for the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of the underserved.

The investments focus on organizations that provide direct service, access to primary and specialty care, community-based health support services and social determinants of health.