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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is joining southeastern states, insurers and national leaders in health care and public health for a collaborative effort to combat the congenital syphilis crisis.
Published: Friday, January 5th, 2024 @ 9:25 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is working collectively with more than 100 statewide partners to improve the health of all people of reproductive age, with a focus on infant mortality, maternal health and maternal mortality.
Published: Sunday, October 9th, 2022 @ 1:43 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The Community Oral Health Transformation (COrHT) Initiative aims to improve outcomes, lower costs, and increase efficiency in oral health care for underserved populations
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Project will inform the potential transition to oral health managed care under NC Medicaid
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Oral Health Collaborative (NCOHC), a program of the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (FHLI), has secured funding to begin tackling the complex needs of people seeking oral health services in western North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, December 30th, 2021 @ 12:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Trustees announce $500M fundraising campaign, approve first step to create ECU Health
Published: Tuesday, December 21st, 2021 @ 2:39 am
By: ECU News Services
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Today, East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine and Vidant Health took the first step in the final approval process in creating ECU Health with a goal of becoming a national academic model for providing rural health care.
Published: Sunday, November 28th, 2021 @ 2:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine and Vidant Health took the first step in the final approval process in creating ECU Health with a goal of becoming a national academic model for providing rural health care.
Published: Monday, November 15th, 2021 @ 1:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Chancellor announces leadership appointments, ECU-branded academic health system
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 6:38 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Ten years ago, the passage of Obamacare vastly increased the federal government’s role in our health–care system.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2019 @ 9:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Republicans believe in patient-centered health care that delivers the choices they want, the affordability and protections they need, and the quality they deserve. That is why Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues today introduced the Protect Act
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2019 @ 6:24 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants UNC Health Care to post a $1 billion performance bond guaranteeing medical costs would not increase for State Health Plan participants, or hit state taxpayers in the wallet, if the system enters into a proposed partnership with Carolinas HealthCare
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Six years ago today, amid glowing promises of cost-cutting and expanded health care for all, President Obama signed into law his signature Affordable Care Act
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Secretary Rick Brajer announced today that Dr. Warren Newton, a leading health educator in North Carolina, has agreed to serve the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services as a senior medical advisor to help shape Medicaid reform, while continuing his current role as director of...
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 @ 7:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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sizable number of North Carolina residents are learning they are no longer eligible for Obamacare, and some health policy premiums could jump 60 percent within two years, an insurance official says.
Published: Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nine Republicans are seeking to succeed 6th District U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, who's retiring after 15 terms in Washington. The winner of the May 6 GOP primary - and a possible July 15 runoff if no candidate gets at least 40 percent of the vote - will face the winner of the Democratic...
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 5:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The League of Women Voters supports a national universal health care system, and in support of that aim one of its North Carolina units has created a speakers bureau that is offering public presentations with information on the Affordable Care Act and training public librarians to answer...
Published: Thursday, November 7th, 2013 @ 7:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Campbell University expects to play a lead role in the transformation of health care delivery in North Carolina, and to aid ailing rural communities by sending them health care professionals from its new School of Osteopathic Medicine, school officials said Thursday.
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 5:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Out of left field comes the Administration announcement that implementation of one of the more contentious requirements of Obamacare will be delayed for a year (i.e. until 2015).
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 9:19 am
By: Jim Bispo
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This week, the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP) launched a public awareness and petition campaign called "Our NC Health Care."
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 3:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Here's some food for thought. The anointed one has proven without reservation that he is an outstanding fund raiser. (That makes two things that he is good at; the other is reading from Teleprompters.)
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2011 @ 3:06 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Socialized health care has always conjured up the fear of rationed health care to those deemed of lower social value, such as the elderly and the disabled.
Published: Sunday, January 16th, 2011 @ 5:08 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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