PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A first facility of its kind found its home in Portsmouth.
Fishing Point Healthcare held a grand opening on Saturday. It's a facility established by the Nansemond Indian Nation to serve Medicaid patients and Indigenous Americans.
It's part of the comprehensive health service founded by the Nansemond Indian Nation in 2023. It comes after the nation, which currently has about 450 citizens, received federal recognition in 2018.
Indigenous Americans are an often overlooked and under-served population, but Fishing Point Healthcare aims to bring quality medical services to those living here in Hampton Roads.
Fishing Point (which is the English translation of the Algonquian name "Nansemond") has grown from in-home healthcare for Medicaid patients to mental health and addiction recovery services in Chesapeake along with the primary care clinic and pharmacy in Portsmouth.
Located at the corner of London Boulevard and High Street, the Fishing Point Center serves Medicaid recipients, uninsured people, and Indigenous communities.
Portsmouth Mayor Shannon Glover helped cut the ribbon for the new facility.
It will be open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It will be closed on the weekends.