Broad Street Clinic

The Broad Street Clinic was founded in 1993 by county physicians and other concerned citizens as a private non-profit, free health clinic serving the adult residents of Carteret County and surrounding areas. Its mission is to provide access to medical care for the uninsured low-income population in our community. The Clinic was originally based in Beaufort, hence the name. We are now located on North 35th Street in Morehead City, near Carteret General Hospital.

The Clinic is open Monday through Thursday. We close on Fridays to keep our electric bill as low as possible. Monday and Tuesday mornings are patient days when volunteer Doctors, Nurse Practitioners, and Nurses work up and see patients. In our “pre COVID” days it was not unusual for seventy patients to be seen on a first come, first served basis between 8:30 and frequently as late as 8 pm each Tuesday. Today we are working to find our new normal without compromising care while continuing to follow the CDC guidelines.

Thursday is Pharmacy day when our wonderful volunteer Pharmacy manager, Dick Gray, frequently arrives before 6 am to prepare 500 prescriptions for on average 150 patients. Pharmacy hours are from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm and then 1:30 to 4 pm. We carry no Class II narcotics; the strongest analgesic we carry is 800 mg of Ibuprofen.

A Dental bus run by the North Carolina Baptist Men’s Association and staffed by local volunteer dentists and hygienists comes to the Clinic on an average of once a quarter and sees about 15 patients each visit.

Most of the clinical staff, front desk staff and pharmacy staff are volunteers. If helping adults who cannot afford health care is your passion, you are needed, whatever your skill set.