The Triad’s community health infrastructure serves the urban cores of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point and the surrounding Piedmont communities with a mix of FQHC organizations and community health centers that have deep roots in the region’s history.
Gaston Family Health Services operates across Forsyth County and the broader Triad region, providing primary care, dental, and behavioral health services to low-income and uninsured patients in Winston-Salem and surrounding communities. Gaston’s patient population reflects the economic profile of the post-industrial Piedmont — predominantly low-income, significantly uninsured, with high rates of chronic disease that reflect the health consequences of poverty and limited preventive care utilization across communities that have experienced sustained economic disinvestment.
Southside United Health and Wellness serves the historically African American communities of South Winston-Salem with primary care and preventive health services in a neighborhood that has experienced decades of economic underinvestment. The Southside community’s healthcare access challenges — concentrated poverty, high chronic disease burden, limited transportation, and the specific health disparities that accompany racial economic inequality — define the clinical environment for providers joining the organization’s care team.
The broader Triad community health network extends into the surrounding Piedmont counties — Alamance, Randolph, Chatham, and the rural communities of the Piedmont interior — where FQHCs and rural health clinics serve populations with fewer alternatives and greater healthcare access barriers than the urban core.
North Carolina’s Medicaid expansion in 2023 has had significant implications for the Triad’s community health sector. The expansion extended coverage to hundreds of thousands of previously uninsured North Carolinians, including many patients of Gaston Family Health Services, Southside United Health and Wellness, and other Triad community health organizations who have depended on sliding-scale community health care as their only healthcare access. The expansion has increased patient volume, changed the payer mix, and created new provider demand across the region’s FQHC organizations.
The Triad’s provider shortage has dimensions that are specific to this market. Unlike Charlotte’s fast-growing financial economy or the Triangle’s research corridor wealth, the Piedmont Triad’s economic base is more modest — a legacy of manufacturing decline that has left significant portions of the region’s workforce in lower-wage service and industrial jobs without employer-sponsored health coverage. The community health organizations serving this population compete for providers against Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Cone Health — both large regional health systems with the compensation structures and professional environments that commercial healthcare offers — while serving a patient population with the highest chronic disease burden and greatest social complexity in the region.
The African American community health dimension of the Triad is the defining character of most FQHC primary care positions in this market. The urban cores of Greensboro and Winston-Salem have predominantly African American patient populations in the communities served by FQHCs — communities with high rates of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, and the behavioral health complexity that accompanies economic precarity and the specific health burden of racial inequality in a Southern city. Cultural competency with African American patient communities is the most consistently valued non-clinical qualification for primary care positions in the Triad’s community health sector.
Spanish-English bilingual capacity is increasingly required across Triad FQHC positions as the region’s Latino population has grown. Greensboro and Winston-Salem have both attracted significant Mexican and Central American immigrant communities, concentrated in the affordable housing corridors of the Piedmont interior — workers in the region’s food processing, construction, and agricultural industries who have limited English proficiency and who depend on bilingual primary care for effective healthcare access. The demand for bilingual providers in the Triad has grown with the region’s Latino population and continues to grow faster than bilingual provider supply.
The Triad’s FQHC patient population carries a chronic disease burden that reflects the health consequences of the economic transition the region has experienced. Communities that lost manufacturing jobs — and the employer-sponsored health insurance that came with them — over the past three decades have populations with high rates of uncontrolled chronic disease, limited preventive care utilization, and the specific health burden of long-term economic stress. Providers practicing in Triad FQHCs are managing chronic disease panels where the social determinants of health are active clinical variables, not background context.
The behavioral health dimension of the Triad’s community health landscape is particularly acute. The opioid epidemic has hit the Piedmont’s working-class communities hard, and the overlap between substance use disorder, mental health comorbidity, and chronic physical disease in the patient populations served by Triad FQHCs creates a clinical environment that requires providers who are trained and genuinely prepared for integrated behavioral health practice.
All-Genz MediMatch Recruit focuses on the positions most critical to the clinical and operational functioning of Triad community health organizations.
Primary Care Physicians — family medicine and internal medicine physicians are the backbone of FQHC primary care across Forsyth, Guilford, and the surrounding Piedmont counties. We recruit for outpatient primary care panels at Gaston Family Health Services, Southside United Health and Wellness, and the broader Triad community health network, with particular focus on physicians with cultural competency in African American communities and bilingual Spanish-English capacity for organizations serving the region’s growing Latino patient population.
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants — advanced practice providers are central to Triad FQHC care delivery. We recruit family NPs, adult NPs, pediatric NPs, and psychiatric mental health NPs for organizations serving patients across the Piedmont.
Psychiatrists and Behavioral Health Providers — behavioral health providers are among the most critical and most difficult roles to fill in the Triad’s community health sector, particularly given the region’s significant opioid epidemic burden. We recruit psychiatrists, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, licensed clinical social workers, and substance use disorder specialists for organizations with integrated behavioral health models.
OB/GYN and Women’s Health — women’s health access is a persistent gap across Triad FQHCs. We recruit OB/GYN physicians and certified nurse midwives for organizations providing maternal and reproductive health services to low-income and uninsured patients across Forsyth and Guilford Counties.
Clinical Leadership — Chief Medical Officers, Medical Directors, and clinical program leaders are foundational to effective Triad community health organizations. We recruit for these roles with the same mission-alignment rigor we bring to frontline clinical positions.
The Triad’s community health organizations serve patient populations whose healthcare relationships have been shaped by economic disruption, racial inequality, and the specific health burden of communities on the wrong side of the region’s economic transition. Providers who build careers in Triad FQHCs are those who understood what the practice would require before they arrived — the chronic disease complexity, the social determinants, the behavioral health burden, and the specific cultural demands of serving communities that have been systemically underserved.
All-Genz MediMatch Recruit approaches every Triad search with retention as the primary outcome. That means investing time understanding what Gaston Family Health Services, Southside United Health and Wellness, and the region’s other community health organizations actually need — clinically, culturally, and in terms of genuine candidate alignment with the mission and patient population.
Finding the right healthcare professional requires more than filling a role.
It requires identifying individuals who align with an organization’s mission, culture, and long-term goals.
All-Genz works closely with healthcare leaders to deliver candidates who are prepared to make an immediate and lasting impact.
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