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Access East, Inc.

Coordinating patient-focused, provider-driven healthcare for the Medicaid and uninsured populations.

05/05/2026

A lot about North Carolina health care has been changing over these past months, and nowhere is that as true as in rural areas like our own eastern N.C.

So this is just a quick reminder that Access East, and our HealthAssist Uninsured Network, are always here for our neighbors, with services for people with Medicaid, and help for the uninsured!

Questions about our programs, including HealthAssist? Could you and your family benefit from our services? Give us a call, (252) 847-6809!

03/21/2026

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has chosen March 24 as Diabetes ALERT!DAY, to encourage people living with this chronic disease to learn ways to further improve their health.

It's the perfect time to remind our eastern North Carolina neighbors that if you yourself are diabetic, and are also uninsured and don’t have a primary-care doctor of your own, the Access East HealthAssist program can offer real, practical, FREE help to you in living with this potentially life-threatening disease.

Click one of the informational flyers for more on how HealthAssist may be able to make your own journey with diabetes a little easier, and for contact information on how to reach out to us for help.

The ADA estimates that more than 1 million adults in North Carolina have been diagnosed with diabetes, with roughly 50,000-63,000 new cases being identified in the state annually. That’s not to mention that another 244,000 North Carolinians likely have undiagnosed diabetes, while a third of all adults may have what’s known as prediabetes.

This is absolutely not a disease to be ignored. Please do everything you can to take care of yourself!

03/11/2026

Been needing to finally get rid of those expired or otherwise unneeded old medicines stuck in cabinets or bathroom drawers around your house?

Our partners at ECU Health are sponsoring an Operation Medicine Drop event later this week, offering a safe way to dispose of prescription and over-the-counter pills.

The event will be Friday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m., or until the collection box is full, at the Pitt County Council on Aging, 4551 County Home Road in Greenville.

Note that Operation Medicine Drop is unable to accept any biohazardous substances, liquid medications, syringes or needles.

Additional participants in Friday’s event include Safe Kids Pitt County and the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office.

Since 2010, Operation Medicine Drop efforts have incinerated more than 422 million pills collected across the state.

02/24/2026

It's happening tomorrow!

Our HealthAssist Uninsured Network will be providing free flu shots from 10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, for people with no health insurance, and no regular doctor. This event will be at the JOY Community Clinic, part of the JOY Community Center, 700 Albemarle Ave., in Greenville.

Walk-ins are welcome, though scheduling an appointment will guarantee being seen.

See the accompanying flyers for additional details.

02/20/2026

Mark your calendars for next week!

Our HealthAssist Uninsured Network will be providing free flu shots Wednesday, Feb. 25, from 10 a.m.-noon. This event, for people with no health insurance, and no regular doctor, will be at the JOY Community Clinic, part of the JOY Community Center, 700 Albemarle Ave., in Greenville.

Walk-ins are welcome, though scheduling an appointment will guarantee being seen.

See the accompanying flyers for additional details.

01/30/2026

Just a reminder to eastern N.C. that Access East, and our HealthAssist Uninsured Network, are always here for our neighbors, with services for people with Medicaid, and help for the uninsured.

Questions about our programs, including HealthAssist? Could you and your family benefit from our services? Just give us a call, (252) 847-6809!

And please be safe this weekend, out there in all the winter weather!

12/24/2025

The Jolly Old Elf, caught on his way into the Dec. 4 Access East (AE) Medicaid Care Management holiday gathering, and then with the AE-ECU Health Care Management teams at their own Dec. 18 party. Santa had dropped by to spread a little Christmas cheer, and candy.

Santa always shows up with candy!

From all of us at Access East -- as well as our many programs in tandem with serving the health needs of our Eastern North Carolina neighbors -- our wishes of a joyous and safe holiday season, and the hope of a wonderful, and healthy, new year.

11/11/2025

While these and similar photos were shared with fellow staff members shortly after the Oct. 3 Access East (AE) office retirement party for Debra Thompson, now former president of AE and vice president of Clinical Population Health at ECU Health (ECUH), we are belated in posting them here.

If you know and value Debra, please enjoy these few snapshots of her party, including two with close colleagues at AE, and several of the emotional ceremony of Dr. Thomas Irons, community-health icon and AE Chief Medical Officer, presenting his longtime friend with a plaque celebrating her lengthy and consequential health care career, which benefitted the lives of so many of our medically vulnerable neighbors across eastern North Carolina (ENC).

Since retiring from AE and ECUH, Debra continues teaching a course in population health through one of her several prestigious alma maters, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, while also developing a therapeutic riding program with her beloved horses on her family's rural ENC farm.

11/02/2025

Open Enrollment (OE) to choose an Affordable Care Act (ACA) health-insurance plan for 2026 has now begun, running through Jan. 15, 2026.

Need to sign up for ACA insurance for next year? Call (252) 847-3027 or visit www.NCNavigator.net to schedule a free personal appointment with one of our ACA Navigators or cross-trained HealthAssist Uninsured Network team members. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments guarantee you will be seen.

NOTE that if you want your ACA coverage to begin Jan. 1, 2026, you will have to enroll in a plan by Dec. 15, 2025.

Also, please be aware that even if you chose an ACA health-insurance plan last year, you will STILL need to choose one again during this OE, or risk being automatically enrolled in a new plan that may not adequately meet your health or financial needs.

Our HealthAssist Uninsured Network will not only be assisting with ACA plans and Medicaid enrollment this year. With the many new changes to federal assistance programs, our team will also be working with people to see if they qualify for additional benefits, such WIC and SNAP (food stamps), along with LIEAP and CIP, two federal programs aimed at helping with home heating and cooling costs.

08/25/2025

Ann, at left, and Ruth, with our Medicaid Care Management program, volunteered this past Saturday at the OTC (Over the Counter) Medication Giveaway at the Pitt County Health Department, part of the Greenville, N.C.-based agency's Family Block Party event.

The OTC giveaway was in collaboration with NC MedAssist, a statewide nonprofit pharmacy providing free prescription medicines to low-income, uninsured North Carolinians. MedAssist holds periodic OTC giveaways all across the state.

08/13/2025

It's almost here!

Our HealthAssist Uninsured Network's Back to School Health Fair is this weekend at the Dr. Irons HealthAssist Clinic at the JOY Community Center & Soup Kitchen.

This free event will be from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. The JOY Community Center & Soup Kitchen is at 700 Albemarle Ave., in west Greenville.

Please see the accompanying flyer for the various services that will be available.

The health fair is being held in partnership with the Pitt County Care Clinic, HealthAssist’s partner free clinic at the Pitt County Health Department.

Address

2410 Stantonsburg Road
Greenville, NC
27834

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Website

http://www.accesseast.org/

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