Beacon Point clinic opens in southeast Raleigh, providing primary and specialty care services
UNC Health and Advance Community Health are celebrating the opening of the new Beacon Point clinic.
Raleigh and community leaders held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday morning for the UNC Health Multispecialty Care and Advance Careplex at Beacon Point at 1425 Promise Beacon Circle.
The clinic helps people with primary care and specialty care needs. It will accept patients who require cardiology, gastroenterology, endocrinology and treatment for sickle cell disease.
When the facility is completed, it will join other amenities eat the Beacon Point site, including a YMCA branch, a public elementary school, and Beacon Ridge, which offers affordable housing.
Friday morning’s event had several speakers, including
- Corey Branch, City Council Member
- Dexter Hebert, YMCA Executive Director
- Yvette Holmes, CEO, Southeast Raleigh Promise
- Scot McCray, CEO Advance Community Health
- Kirsten Riggs, Interim President & COO, UNC Health Rex
A release from UNC Health said Southeast Raleigh Promise started the initiative to create the Beacon Point clinic along with the YMCA of the Triangle and Self-Help Ventures Fund. According to UNC Health, the groups designed the clinic in consultation with the Southeast Raleigh community, a historically Black neighborhood.
