Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry (ABCCM) is a non-profit organization in Buncombe county that addresses poverty, hunger, homelessness and access to health care for the under-served. ABCCM plays significant role in meeting emergency assistance needs for families in crisis, coordinating religious services and education activities at the jail, providing transitional and permanent supportive housing of the homeless through 300 beds, increasing access to health care for half the uninsured and medically underserved; as well as work readiness, mentoring and job placement services. We serve veterans across 26 western North Carolina counties.
ABCCM offers the only free clinic so the uninsured have access to medical care, dental care and medicine. Those without insurance of any kind are served by two pharmacies that distributed about $3.3 million in prescriptions and about $2.5 million in medical/dental care, an impact of $5.8 million in health care in Buncombe County.
The ABCCM Medical Ministry provides urgent care, medication assistance, and crisis dental care to nearly 4,000 Buncombe County adults between 18-65.
Volunteers include physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, hygienists, receptionists, intake workers, data entry, medical records and other non-medical volunteers. Medical students from MAHEC, Western Carolina University, and A-B Tech also volunteer as part of their clinical rotations.