HIGH POINT, N.C. — It’s a sad fact for many across our area — health insurance is a luxury they can’t afford. But some medical professionals are banding together to help thousands of uninsured people.

What You Need To Know

  • The Community Clinic of High Point provides health care to the uninsured
  • The clinic helps those who live below the poverty level
  • The clinic serves more than 3,000 people in High Point
  • All physicians and pharmacists are volunteers 

Dr. Gary Biesecker was a surgeon for 45 years before retiring in 2012. He started volunteering at the Community Clinic of High Point the same year.

"I’ve always enjoyed medicine and particularly enjoyed being a surgeon," he said. "So, it was really a means to get back into what I really enjoyed."

Biesecker works with other physician and pharmacist volunteers at the clinic, which serves more than 3,000 people in High Point who live below poverty level and aren’t able to receive Medicaid or health insurance coverage.

"This clinic is very important to the patients that come here because most of them have rather serious problems like hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and other medical conditions that if we weren’t available for them, it would be a very difficult time indeed for them," he said.

The clinic just opened a minor surgery room that was in the works for the last five months.

"I just did my first cases last week so it’s a brand new process," Biesecker said.

He does minor surgeries on Thursday at the clinic.

"It’s been difficult when skin lesions were found on these patients at the community clinic, to get access to biopsies and early treatment," he said.

The clinic runs off donations, and on Dec. 4 they will have their yearly fundraising event. This year it will be back in person.

The clinic, at 779 N. Main St., High Point, is open Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.