East Bay Community Action Program merges with East Bay Center

EAST PROVIDENCE – East Bay Center has merged with East Bay Community Action Program, effective Jan. 1. East Bay Center, which retains its name and staff, offers such behavioral health services as 24-hour emergency services/crisis intervention, counseling for children and adults, psychiatric services, medication prescription and monitoring, and substance abuse and opioid treatment services. East Bay Center is now a program of EBCAP, which provides primary health care services and other social services, primarily to residents of Barrington, Bristol, East Providence, Jamestown, Little Compton, Middletown, Newport, Portsmouth, Tiverton and Warren.

With some 325 employees at EBCAP and 125 at East Bay Center, the expanded EBCAP will serve approximately 25,000 clients, primarily those on Medicare, Medicaid or who are uninsured; only a small number of clients have commercial health insurance, said Dennis Roy, EBCAP’s president and chief executive officer. Before the merger, EPCAB served some 21,000 to 22,000 clients and East Bay around 3,000 individuals.

Effective Feb. 1, the two agencies were able to integrate their respective electronic medical records, which will improve efficiencies in record keeping.

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