HEALTHY LIVING
Affordable Care Act
The comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010 (sometimes known as ACA, PPACA, or “Obamacare”).
The law has 3 primary goals:
- Make affordable health insurance available to more people. The law provides consumers with subsidies (“premium tax credits”) that lower costs for households with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL).
- If your income is above 400% FPL, you may still qualify for a premium tax credit.
- If your income is at or below 150% FPL, you may qualify to enroll in or change Marketplace coverage through a Special Enrollment Period.
- Expand the Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138% of the FPL. (Not all states have expanded their Medicaid programs.)
- Support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally.
Goler CDC received grant funds to conduct outreach activities and increase enrollment in Affordable Care Act insurance plans.
Kimberly Park Hydroponic Farm
Hydroponics is the practice of growing plants, without soil, in water that is enriched with nutrients. Goler CDC was awarded a grant from the City of Winston Salem to design and construct an Urban Farm in the Kimberly Park neighborhood in an effort to increase access to healthy food in this food desert community.
Goler Garden
Goler CDC partners with the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Downtown Health Plaza to maintain a community garden that grows fruits, vegetables, and herbs to distribute at no cost to patients at the Health Plaza throughout the growing seasons. The garden has volunteers from the medical school community, Goler CDC, and other local civic organizations.