East Greensboro health hub opens, aims to close care gap

East Greensboro residents now have urgent care, primary care and maternal care under one roof in the Resurgent building, a new health-care hub leaders say was built to confront a gap that has persisted for years. Cone Health doctor Olu Jegede said people in East Greensboro can live about 15 years less than people in Greensboro’s northern neighborhoods, a stark measure of the access problem the project is meant to address.

The hub opened April 22 through a partnership involving the City of Greensboro, North Carolina A&T State University, Cone Health and the NC A&T Real Estate Foundation. It sits across from the university, on a bus route and within walking distance of nearby neighborhoods, features that are central to the pitch that the building can make care easier to reach for people who have struggled to find it close to home.

Mayor Marikay Abuzuaiter tied the opening to years of community meetings and feedback, saying residents had repeatedly said they needed better access to care. The city and its partners are betting that a permanent site in East Greensboro will do more than add another clinic address. They want it to become a dependable place where neighborhood residents can get basic care without leaving the area and where students can train in a real-world setting.

That student piece is built into the building itself. Along with health services, the Resurgent building houses NC A&T entrepreneurship and innovation offices, creating a setup that links public health, education and economic development in the same space. The site is also expected to support mentorship and nursing-program experiences, giving students direct exposure to care delivery while expanding the pipeline of future health workers.

For Guilford County, the opening is a test of whether a well-placed, multi-use building can narrow a long-standing access gap in East Greensboro. The most important measure over the next six months will not be the ribbon-cutting image, but whether residents are using the clinic for routine and urgent care, whether pregnant patients can find maternal services close by, and whether the location’s walkability and bus access translate into real use. If that happens, the hub could become one of the clearest local examples yet of health care moving closer to the people who need it most.