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Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine provides healthcare for all
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — It's a place that provides health care regardless of your insurance coverage or financial status. Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine cut the ribbon on its newly renovated administrative building this week. It's on East Cone Boulevard, and the property will also be the site of a new health center that will offer health care, dental services and behavioral health care when it's finished. Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine currently provides medical services at six locations in Guilford County, thanks in part to help from a community foundation. Chief Financial Officer Danielle Cole says, 'we are a federally qualified health center. We do preventative medicine, wellness checks, immunizations, acute care.' That may sound like every medical office, but Cole says what makes her organization unique is it cares for all patients, even the uninsured and those who cannot afford to pay out of pocket. The money comes from the Tri-County Health Fund administered through the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro. 'We consider ourselves to be a safety net provider,' says Cole. 'So, a lot of times if a person is uninsured or they don't have insurance, or the thought is 'I have a limited amount of income and that needs to go towards gas or food,' I'm not going to go and get care until it's a really bad situation, and a lot of times I'm going to end up in the emergency room. Now I have more debt. I have a huge bill, and now I've bogged down that system with something that I could have gone to the doctor for and probably been treated and not had to create that effect.' Cole says getting people that early preventative care is one of the organization's main goals. They encourage patients to come in for checkups, use their behavioral health resources, visit the dietitian and take part in programs to keep their health in check at all times. Sometimes, a visit for one problem uncovers another. 'It starts out as one thing right. So maybe I come in and I just want to address blood pressure,' says Cole. 'But then when you come in for your blood pressure you tell me 'I'm having trouble getting food. I'm having trouble with my house.' And so we have care managers that have resources that are available to try to address those needs.' Reid Brannan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist. He says behavioral health is also an important part of maintaining overall wellness. 'It's fantastic because everybody has a common goal, and that is just integrative care, and we all come at it from different disciplines,' he says. 'We are able to provide different ideas towards a more collaborative approach and looking at the whole person rather than just case files and numbers.' Treatment costs at Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine are based on family size and income, and while insurance isn't necessary, it is accepted along with Medicare and Medicaid, no one is turned away because of the inability to pay. There are four locations in Greensboro and two in High Point. You can get more information online. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- General
- Yahoo
She Built This City teaches women construction, repair skills
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — More than 80 years ago, Rosie the Riveter became a cultural icon, inspiring women to fill the jobs left by men as they went off to fight in World War II. Now, a new generation of Rosies is teaching young women to fill more jobs traditionally held by men. They're learning the ins and outs of construction and home repair with an organization called She Built This City, and it's with support from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro. Check out the difference Community Foundations are making here in the Piedmont Triad The whir of saw blades and the pounding of a hammer with women building something more than just a wall or shelf. She Built This City started in Charlotte and expanded into Greensboro. The nonprofit helps women learn trades such as carpentry, plumbing, painting and electrical work. But safety is always first. 'First they learn basic safety and they learn about OSHA. They get an OSHA 10 certification through us as well. Then they learn tools. They learn how to use them properly,' says Shamilya Mitchell-Goss, the program manager for the Greensboro chapter. She believes in having all people learn a trade. 'Honestly, anyone that applies that wants a career in the skilled trades and is serious about it can get into the program,' says Mitchell-Goss, 'but again, we target women.' The nine-week program covers a lot of information and includes hands-on experience. Every student builds one of these three-by-three mini walls. Learning how to frame joists, install plumbing, and wire an electrical outlet. By the time they are done, they have applied the basics of all the trades to this one little wall. 'I'm able to do plumbing in my own house. I'm able to install. I have holes from the kids. I'm able to be able to fix those holes, patch them up,' says Carolyn Boston. She learned from the program that construction is much more than hammering a wall or cutting boards. She's learned skills she wants to pass down to her children. 'It's easier to just call somebody to come and do everything for me,' she says. 'But initially I would like to be able to do it for myself, being as though I have boys. I wanted to be able to show them how they can use their hands.' Like Boston, many of the women who take part in the program are trying to better themselves and their families. Mitchell-Goss says construction work is perfect because it offers long-term job security. 'Skilled trades are the only jobs that can't be done by robots,' she says. 'They can't be automated, and you can start as an electrician making the low 6 figures, meaning if we train a woman properly and she goes into the electrical field, we can pull her and her family out of generational poverty in four years.' Like Rosie the Riveter decades ago, the 'we can do it' attitude still lives strong for women willing to get their hands dirty in a male-dominated field. Carolyn Boston says she would tell other women 'to have an open mind and be ready to work with your hands.' You can get more information on . Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
