The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provided a $540,000 grant to help Wake County provide community health services. | Adobe Stock
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provided a $540,000 grant to help Wake County provide community health services. | Adobe Stock
Wake County received a $540,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on providing health services to residents with multiple needs.
Five practitioners will collaborate with community partners to assist residents with criminal justice and correctional systems, emergency medical services, homelessness services, physical and mental health services, and substance abuse detox and treatment services, Wake County officials said in an Oct. 1 release.
“The grant will help us make progress on our community’s plans to better serve this vulnerable population,” Dr. Jose Cabañas, Wake County EMS director/medical director, and leader of the clinical scholars team, said in the release. “We will apply what we learn to make further improvements to enhance access and delivery of health and social systems of care across Wake County.”
The practitioners are Jason Wittes, PharmD with Wake County Human Services, Dr. Derrick Hoover, MD with Duke University Health System, Thava Mahadevan, MS LCAS with UNC School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, and Keturah Beckham with WakeMed Health and Hospitals.
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